[grid blog :: advent 4]

Nothing. No light, no time, no substance, no matter – the Voice was there. Before anything moved, mutated or mated, Jesus, God’s voice, was there with God from the kick-off. How come? ‘Cos Jesus, God’s Voice, is God. Before anything began, they had always been. Before there was even anywhere to be, they were there. Jesus got the name God’s Voice because he just spoke and things started. From nothing to everything, sparked only by the Voice…..

….. So God’s Voice gets flesh and blood, skin and bone. He spends time with us; we hang around with him, get to know him and see what he’s like. And? As magnificent, as superb as you’d expect God’s only Son to be… and heaps more! God’s OTT gifts oozing from every pore: everything he does and says rings true…..

….. Who’s seen God? No one. But we’ve seen his only Son, jesus, and you don’t get closer than that.

[Excerpts from the Gospel of John chapter 1, taken from The Street Bible by Rob Lacey, published by Zondervan]