John 1:1-18
This morning I open up the curtain to a beautiful delight. The morning sky is just showing a crack of deep, dark, unexplainable brilliance of orange and it is very low on the horizon because dark clouds are shutting it out. Then I began to think of all the things which come together to produce this beauty in front of me. The fact that light is a wave and a particle, refraction, the clouds it is breaking through and not breaking through, and on and on. Only then do we come anywhere near close to fully understanding this text from John.
Its like the more you know, the more complicated it gets. You peel back one layer and there is layer upon layer of brilliance laid before us here. I just read, not too long ago, Neil Degrasse Tyson's book, "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" and in it we get to hear more of the discoveries they've made and things they've proved that Einstein had formulated, but could never prove. On and on into scientific mystery. It's like the more we know the more we don't know, the more that is waiting to be discovered.
With John's beginning I think of this because the more you know the more questions you can ask. We know that the way this starts, "In the beginning..." is supposed to make us think back to the very beginning, Genesis. And there was light and dark, and eventually the word is spoken, "Let there be light." And it all comes around again to this word and story, to this Jesus, a representation of the light. John knows the pointer of the way to that light, John the Baptist and there is not much need to tell anything but how John witnesses to the light.
Then there is the phrase "the light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it," or is it the darkness has not understood it. When we go back to the Greek the phrase is something about not comprehending light. Then the commentator points out a militaristic flair and this is why it should be overcome, but why. If we open the door to the darkness has not understood the light don't we have more questions about what we truly know and don't know? Are there times we are in the dark and not pieces of light, what is light and dark? Don't we have to experience darkness in order to know light?
We could keep going on and on and isn't that the point. We are supposed to dig deeper with John. We are to explore all of the mystery here and delve ever deeper. We are not to be afraid of the questions which may come from this or even see the end because the depths of John lead us to the infinite. There are things we cannot quite know and we are supposed to be okay with that. There are things which are bigger than us and we are supposed to be okay with that. There are times John leads us to the darkness and we are supposed to be okay with this too.
John is all about the vast expanse of space, the beauty of music to take you into mystical inner depths, the edge of the horizon and what is next. John is all about the beauty of mystery. Not everything about God, about belief can we explain and nail down like a scientific proof. We were never meant to. We were meant to stand in wonder at the edge of the earth. We were meant to look at the beauty which surrounds us and be in awe of its complexity. We were meant to not understand every thing in this life and open ourselves fully to this mystery. Have faith, believe, keep looking for the light because this is our journey.
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This morning I open up the curtain to a beautiful delight. The morning sky is just showing a crack of deep, dark, unexplainable brilliance of orange and it is very low on the horizon because dark clouds are shutting it out. Then I began to think of all the things which come together to produce this beauty in front of me. The fact that light is a wave and a particle, refraction, the clouds it is breaking through and not breaking through, and on and on. Only then do we come anywhere near close to fully understanding this text from John.
Its like the more you know, the more complicated it gets. You peel back one layer and there is layer upon layer of brilliance laid before us here. I just read, not too long ago, Neil Degrasse Tyson's book, "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" and in it we get to hear more of the discoveries they've made and things they've proved that Einstein had formulated, but could never prove. On and on into scientific mystery. It's like the more we know the more we don't know, the more that is waiting to be discovered.
With John's beginning I think of this because the more you know the more questions you can ask. We know that the way this starts, "In the beginning..." is supposed to make us think back to the very beginning, Genesis. And there was light and dark, and eventually the word is spoken, "Let there be light." And it all comes around again to this word and story, to this Jesus, a representation of the light. John knows the pointer of the way to that light, John the Baptist and there is not much need to tell anything but how John witnesses to the light.
Then there is the phrase "the light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it," or is it the darkness has not understood it. When we go back to the Greek the phrase is something about not comprehending light. Then the commentator points out a militaristic flair and this is why it should be overcome, but why. If we open the door to the darkness has not understood the light don't we have more questions about what we truly know and don't know? Are there times we are in the dark and not pieces of light, what is light and dark? Don't we have to experience darkness in order to know light?
We could keep going on and on and isn't that the point. We are supposed to dig deeper with John. We are to explore all of the mystery here and delve ever deeper. We are not to be afraid of the questions which may come from this or even see the end because the depths of John lead us to the infinite. There are things we cannot quite know and we are supposed to be okay with that. There are things which are bigger than us and we are supposed to be okay with that. There are times John leads us to the darkness and we are supposed to be okay with this too.
John is all about the vast expanse of space, the beauty of music to take you into mystical inner depths, the edge of the horizon and what is next. John is all about the beauty of mystery. Not everything about God, about belief can we explain and nail down like a scientific proof. We were never meant to. We were meant to stand in wonder at the edge of the earth. We were meant to look at the beauty which surrounds us and be in awe of its complexity. We were meant to not understand every thing in this life and open ourselves fully to this mystery. Have faith, believe, keep looking for the light because this is our journey.
Please support this ministry. Thank you.
https://causemomentum.org/projects/jubilee-ministries-bright-futures-partnershipg
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