Lutheran Seminary – Moved by the Promise – God Pause – Wednesday, 25 December 2013 Read John 1: The Word Became Flesh

Lutheran Seminary – Moved by the Promise – God Pause – Wednesday, 25 December 2013 Read John 1: The Word Became Flesh

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being 4 in him was life,[a] and the life was the light of all people. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.

Footnotes:

a. John 1:4 Or 3 through him. And without him not one thing came into being that has come into being. 4 In him was life 14 And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son,[a] full of grace and truth.

Footnotes:

a. John 1:14 Or the Father’s only Son

The star of promise that shone throughout the nights of Advent has now become the sun of grace. The dawn of Christmas has appeared. This day we celebrate our source, our light, our life, our desire. In Christ, the Word made flesh, we encounter the source from which all our hopes and dreams both originate and find their fulfillment. As we await Christ's final advent, we continue to walk by faith, but we walk in the light of Christ who rightly orders our human longings and desires. We continue to hunger and thirst for justice. We continue to yearn to behold the beauty of the Lord. We continue to long for the day of shalom for all God's creation. These holy desires flow through our lives as we celebrate God's coming to dwell with us.

Laura Thelander

Seminary Pastor, Luther Seminary

Master of Divinity , 1997

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2 He was in the beginning with God.

3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being

4 in him was life, and the life was the light of all people.

5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.

14 And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth.(NRSV)

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