The Light.

Music:
May You Find The Light. Written and Performed by Salt of The Sound.
The Wonder. Written and Performed by Dear Gravity 
John 1:1-5
Over the next three days, we will spend our time in the poetic prologue of John's Gospel- one of my favourite passages in the entire bible.
In the theologically rich opening poem to the Fourth Gospel, we see an amalgamation of Hebrew revelation and Greek wisdom—a blend that describes Christian theology itself.
John opens his book with an echo back to Genesis 1:1.
John writes that in the beginning was the Word—the Eternal Logos, the Infinite Idea, the Logic of Love, the Divine Wisdom. This Logos is the wisdom by which God founded the earth and established the heavens.
The Logos is the creative Word of God in the intricacy of the Trinity—and this Word is Christ. Jesus Christ as the Word of God is both the creator and the sustainer of creation—as the Apostle Paul says, “In him all things hold together”.
A century ago, in the aftermath of a global war and a global pandemic, the Irish poet William Butler Yeats wrote, “things fall apart, the center cannot hold.” In the context of the time Yeats’ poem had a prophetic truth to it. But the greater truth is that there is a center that holds—the Eternal Logos that sustains all things and which cannot be overcome by the chaotic darkness of evil. Every star and every galaxy, every blade of grass and every grain of sand continues to exist because they are sustained by the Eternal Word of God.
The Word Became Flesh
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[a] it.
As we heard about yesterday, Christ is supreme above all, he sustains creation alongside things seen and things unseen.

In this passage at the beginning of John, we see that God is sustaining creation through his word and that Word remains the ever present, uncreated Jesus.
As we have heard over the last few days, Jesus never ceased to be the eternal God who has always existed, the creator and sustainer of all things, and the source of eternal life.

What John also tells us is that Jesus is Light.
Every year at Christmas I look forward to lighting up my house with Christmas lights and seeing all different light displays in the neighbourhood. Some might say it’s a silly tradition, but I think it’s a beautiful reminder of the light that comes to the world at Christmas.
light that has come into the darkness of our world. A beacon of light from a lighthouse when darkness and peril prevail.
CS Lewis says “I believe in Christ as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
Verse 4 says that his life brought life to everyone.
As Christ came to us those 2020 years ago, bringing a light to our dark world, so does he bring light into our present darkness that we may persistently experience throughout our lives.
a light of a lighthouse not only alerts the captain of the location of the lighthouse, but it shines light on the surroundings, giving the ship a safe passage home.
Jesus comes to this world as a light that shines in the darkness. Not only to show us who he is, but to guide us through the turbulent life that we all live here on the earth.

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