“No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.”--John 1:18

John used the first eighteen verses of this Gospel to write about the pre-existence of Jesus in order to prove to the readers that He was not only a historical man who lived among them, but He is in deed the God who existed in the beginning. Before anything existed, God was there. Though the Word and the God who existed in the beginning is one of the same, yet John wanted to make a distinction between the two personalities.

“Word” is the Greek Logos, which has several meanings. It usually refers to more than the sounding of words, but the meaning of them. This is where the English word Logic came from. Therefore, Logos expresses the personality of the one who communicates. This brings to mind that in Genesis 1:3, God spoke, and it was light. This indicates that the emphasis wasn’t on the “light,” but on the personality and the dynamic power of God. He didn’t like darkness and void (without direction), therefore, using His dynamic power, He made light out of nothing to prepare the grand entry of the ultimate creation—men, and gave them a purpose to live—communicate with and glorify God.

The Word became flesh and lived among men. To this, we came to know the God who created everything out of nothing. Other than the One and Only who was with God from the beginning, no one have seen and known God. The Logos who we come to know as Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, came to live among men in order to communicate who God is and what He desires. Through the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, we know that God is full of grace and truth. Therefore, to those who received the Logos and to those who believed in His name, He gave them the right to become children of God. For that, we are grateful.

No doubt that Jesus came to take away the sin of the world by dying on the Cross, yet at the same time, He made the Father known to all men. Now, this important mission is passed on to Christians. God the Father is still full of grace and truth, and it is up to His children to reflect the personality of the invisible Father to others. Are you doing that?