The Gospel of John, Day 5: ch. 1, vv. 16-18

Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given.  For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.  No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and  is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known. (John 1:16-18 NIV)

GRACE, GRACE, AND MORE GRACE!!!  Truth is, his grace is enough. His grace is enough to be free from accusation and the accuser.  His grace is enough to be freed from regrets and mistakes.  His grace is enough to be able to come to God in repentance.  His grace is enough to live as God intended and to be saved.  This Grace comes from Jesus, who makes known the Father and his love.

The Gospel of John, Day 4: ch. 1, vv. 14-15

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.

By coming to earth, Jesus became something we can see with our own eyes, we perceive the glory of the father.  He lived among us, and gave us grace and truth.  The truth about who we are and who he is is scary, we love darkness, but Jesus also came with grace, so that we can be united to him and abide with him. That alone is glorious.

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.’”)

John saw the glory of Jesus with his own eyes.  Jesus was greater than John.  Jesus existed before John.

The Gospel of John, Day 3: ch. 1, vv. 9-13

9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.

Jesus gives light to all of us.  Everyone.  However, those in darkness the light, they do not receive it.  As the darkness can not overcome or understand the light, those in darkness didn't receive or recognize Christ.  Darkness blinds our eyes from seeing the light.

12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

If we receive Jesus as he is, that is we believe in Him, we are born again as a child of God.  This is totally different that natural birth, it is only something that can be wrought by God.

The Gospel of John, Day 2: ch. 1, vv. 6-8

6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. 8 He himself was not the

light; he came only as a witness to the light.

God sends us as witnesses to call others to believe the light.  John speaks these words humbly.  He is not himself the light, he himself is not the answer to life's problems,

but tells about the light.  If we are like John, we are not focused on self at all, but we say along with him that "He must become greater, and I must become less." (John 3:30).

 If we are like John, we can be instruments of God's salvation.  We testify to the reality of God's light on our lives.

The Gospel of John, Day 1: ch. 1, vv. 1-5

Hello all,

It's been a while.  In view of attempting to read and study my Bible more regularly, I decided to do a blog series on the Gospel of John, a book I am now going through in my devotional.  This is one of my favorite books of the Bible.  I do not know long this will take, but I like writing blogs, so I hope you all enjoy.

          In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the    
          beginning.  Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  In him was life,
          and that life was the light of all mankind.  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[a] it.

          a. John 1:5, or understood

My thoughts: Jesus, the word, is God. He is eternal, one with the father, yet with the father as a distinct person. God created the world by speaking it into existence, therefore, EVERYTHING was created through the Word. Jesus' essence is the first thing that was created through him-LIGHT. His essence is also life, another thing that was created through him. This life is the light of man, and darkness-dwellers cannot understand light, and therefore cannot overcome it.