by Marcia Sanders
“‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,’” David read to Skippy, who was always ready to listen to David. “Hmm . . . interesting,” he mused.
“And the next verse says, ‘He was in the beginning with God.’ That’s John 1:1, 2. And it gets even more interesting down here in verse 10, where it says, ‘He was in the world, and the world was made through him.’ This has to be talking about Jesus. Listen to verse 14: ‘And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.’ Who else has had that glory?”
Skippy silently agreed, tail thumping.
“This is so cool! Let’s see where else we can learn about Jesus’ beginning,” David said enthusiastically.
“What has you so excited?” Mom asked.
“Pastor mentioned in his sermon last week that Jesus was around before He was born to Mary. I was just reading the verses in John 1 that pastor mentioned, and it’s really true!”
“Have you seen what else is recorded in the Gospel of John?” Mom asked. “For instance, check out chapter 17, verse 5, where Jesus is praying and asks His Father to ‘glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.’”
“I’ve read that verse before but never really stopped to think about it,” David said.
“If you think that’s interesting,” Mom continued, “check out John 8:58.”
Flipping back a few pages in his Bible, David read Jesus’ words aloud: “‘Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.’ That makes it really clear. Do you know some more?”
“As a matter of fact, I do.” Mom smiled. “And they’re not all in John, although there are several more verses there we could check out. But let’s leave John for a moment and look at Colossians 1:16.”
“Okay.” David began to flip pages again. “Let’s see . . . ‘For by him were all things created, in heaven and on earth, . . . all things were created through him and for him.’ I don’t think you could get much clearer than that!”
“And then there is Hebrews 1:2, where the writer says that God created the world through His Son,” Mom added. “This kinda goes along with what we were studying in Sabbath school last week about all of the many prophecies in the Old Testament that were fulfilled in the New Testament,” David commented. “Jesus was involved from the beginning of the world, and His Father told the prophets in the old times about His coming to earth — like He’d be born of a virgin in Isaiah 7:14 and that He’d be born in Bethlehem in Micah 5:2. The Bible all fits together so well. I just love reading and learning more about Jesus!”
