Music:
Oh Holy Night, Performed by Salt of the Sound. 

As we approach the threshold of our final week of our Advent prayer times together we read the most wonderful message of all —the Word made flesh!
The Eternal Logos, the Infinite Idea, the Logic of Love, the Divine Wisdom, God’s Understanding of God’s Self, assumed human nature to heal human nature.
The moment the Word became flesh the salvation of humanity was guaranteed. All the events of God’s salvation would have to run their course through time, from incarnation to crucifixion to resurrection, but the salvific end was always inevitable.
When the Word was made flesh, the creator and giver of life, light and love, moved into the neighbourhood, walked our streets, and conversed with us.
The apostles of Christ saw, and through their witness we too have seen, the beauty of the Father fully displayed in the life of Jesus Christ—a life overflowing with grace and truth.
The grace and truth of God that Moses and the Prophets could never fully embody is fully found in the Word made flesh.
From the infinite fullness of God there is an endless flow of grace into humanity.
Imagine an hourglass with its two spheres and the connecting point where the sand flows from the upper sphere into the lower. Now imagine an upper sphere that is infinite. That’s what we find in the Word made flesh. Jesus became the point that connects the infinite grace of God with the finite deficiency of humanity. This is salvation. This is why we say, Merry Christmas!
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
15 (John testified concerning him. He cried out, saying, “This is the one I spoke about when I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’”) 16 Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and[b] is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
John concludes his poetic prologue by insisting that no one has ever seen God—it is God the Son who is near the Father’s heart who has made God known.
We might protest and point out that Abraham saw God and had a meal with him under the oaks of Mamre; Jacob saw God with angels ascending and descending on the ladder at Bethel; Moses saw God face to face on Mount Sinai and his face shone from the encounter. There were many other encounters such as these. 
 But John knows all of this, and that’s what makes his apostolic assertation so daring. By the Holy Spirit John asserts that no matter what dreams, visions, revelations, epiphanies, theophanies, or Christophanies people have had in times past, compared to the revelation we have in the Word made flesh, no one has ever seen God! All ideas and images of God must surrender to the supreme revelation of God as seen in Jesus Christ. Christ alone is the perfect definition of who God is.
The conclusion we are to draw from John at the beginning of the fourth Gospel is this: God is like Jesus. God has always been like Jesus. There has never been a time when God wasn’t like Jesus. We haven’t always known this, but now we do.
What sticks out to you the most in these verses? Why is the Word coming to Earth such a big deal in the great scope of human history? “The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood.” What might your life be like if God moved into your street?

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