30 Days with the Word

30 Days with THE WORD
January 2, 2021

John 1:1-2, ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. He (the Word) was in the beginning with God (NKJV).’

Thirty years was more than enough time for Him to infiltrate Earth, one might say. In fact, for all His life, it seemed Jesus had been walking on proving ground. Why, we find Him in the temple at the age of twelve, separated from His family unbeknownst to them. He wasn’t lost at all, He knew right where He belonged, in His Father’s house, even though it had to have caused quite a flutter in the heart of His mother. The Word, which to me is The Answer, ironically is asking questions in the temple by which He might gain wisdom and understanding. The Bible also says in Luke 2:52, ‘And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man (NIV).’

So this Breath of Heaven, God’s spoken Word, pulled on human flesh and dressed in humanity, beating with a God-sized heart. He entered our messiness and walked our paths and lived in our shoes. John 1:14 says, ‘The Word became flesh and blood and moved into the neighborhood. We saw the glory with our own eyes, the one-of-a-kind glory, like Father, like Son, generous inside and out, true from start to finish (MSG).’ He moved into your house next door and became your neighbor, but you knew Him not. We were still waiting for a new beginning, looking for what resembled a King, not a tiny baby lying in a dirty stall in a forgotten barn. We never thought the Savior of the world might look just like you and me; we never thought The Word might talk our language clearly enough that we might understand Him, and so He too might understand us.

However, one thing I doubt we ever imagined, is that God’s only Son, this King, this Word, would leave His throne, and would communicate His love language in our language instead, being born to die, through nailprints, through His sacrifice for mankind on a tree He planted, through His extravagant expression for us.
I wonder, what is your love language? And what does Christ’s love language speak to you?