The Password

UV 961/10,000 The Word or the World The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1 v 14 John describes Jesus in metaphoric terms as the Word. Why did he choose to describe Jesus by what people normally consider the least important- a mere word and not even plural? He could have described Jesus as the miracle worker, the healer, the deliverer, the redeemer, the saviour, the Messiah, the King. Jesus Himself had summed up His identity as “ the Way, the Truth and the Life.” Yet His closest disciple chose to equate Jesus with the Word. He had done the impossible in compressing the infinite into one word- the Word. In lighter vein, if John was living in this current age, he would have said, “Jesus is the Password.” He is the password nobody will have difficulty remembering and nobody could forget. Jesus is more than a password to access heaven. Jesus is the Password to make us pass from sin to righteousness, damnation to salvation, penalty to reward, guilt to blamelessness, religious bondage to spiritual freedom, from curses to blessings, from death to eternal life, from a limited life to an abundant life, from ignorance to knowledge and wisdom, from failure to success, from spiritual and other poverty to prosperity. By His words, the Creator God had brought into being the entire universe and all living creatures. Through Jesus the Word , God made all things by design not by accident. Without Jesus nothing was made. It was made by Him and for Him. When something in our life is not working the way it was designed or intended to, we should therefore return it to the Maker. Jesus can set it right. For Jesus is the Architect, Builder, Inhabitor and Renovator of the universe. We humans constantly reach out to be that which we are not. If we are poor, we try and reach out to be rich. If we are ignorant, we try and reach out to be wise and knowledgeable. If we are weak, we try and reach out to be strong. If we are sad or depressed, we try and reach out to be happy or joyful. We are aspirational creatures, always aspiring to be that which we are not but desire to be. But Jesus did the opposite for He reached down to be born lowly and limited in mortal flesh and blood when He could have gone on just being an Eternal spirit Being. He reached down to pull us all up. The words, “ He made His dwelling among us” means that He endured our living conditions, confronted our kind of temptations and pressures, experienced suffering and pain. Yet He retained the glory of God, the Eternal Self Existent Being. He did not fall short in any way. He fulfilled His mandate and mission on Earth. Jesus is described as the “ One and Only who came from the Father”. The singular Word is used by John to describe Him as He is the One and Only Mediator who originated from God and sent by God to reconcile God and His fallen creation. Jesus communicates like a Word the love of God to mankind. He is full of grace and truth or hundred per cent gracious and truthful. All other human beings are only partially gracious and truthful. We aspire to be full of grace and truth. We are born with a certain love of the world. We can uses our senses to understand or comprehend and get a hold on this world around us but to understand and comprehend the Lord God, it is necessary to use our dormant faith faculty. In proportion to the extent we empty ourselves of this love of the world and increase or fill ourselves with love of the Word or Jesus, we too become fuller with grace and truth. We no longer have to make a choice between the devil and the deep sea but between the world and the Word. As we become more and more full of grace and truth, we reflect the ineffable glory or greatness of God. The more we comprehend the length, breadth, height and width of the Word of God, the more we will understand, appreciate and realize the length, breadth, height and width of the love of God. Prateep V Philip