Week 24
The Word Became Flesh
John 1:1–18
“The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory.”
John 1:1–18 (NKJV)
John begins before creation: the Word was with God and was God. Jesus does not enter the story as a late religious teacher; He is eternal, personal, and divine.
All things came into being through Him. The voice that called light from darkness is not an impersonal sound but the Son through whom the Father makes Himself known.
Life and light reside in Him, shining into a darkness that cannot overcome or comprehend it. Human resistance is real, but it cannot extinguish the divine light.
Then the unimaginable happens: the Word becomes flesh. God does not send an idea about Himself; He assumes our nature, enters our vulnerability, and pitches His dwelling among us.
His glory is full of grace and truth. In Jesus, kindness never becomes false and truth never becomes loveless. The character proclaimed to Moses now walks in human form.
Some reject Him, but all who receive Him are given authority to become children of God—not through ancestry, effort, or human will, but by new birth from God.
No one has seen God fully, yet the only Son has made Him known. Every thought about God must now pass through the face, words, cross, and resurrection of Jesus.
Behold the glory near enough to touch. The Holy Presence is not an abstraction. God has spoken Himself in the Son and invites you to receive grace upon grace.
In Conversation with A. W. Tozer
Tozer emphasized that God’s speaking is not confined to a distant past; the living Voice addresses creation and conscience, always consistent with written revelation.
John gives that speaking its eternal and incarnate center. The Word is a Person, and God’s clearest self-disclosure is Jesus Christ dwelling among us.
A Prayer
Holy God,
Eternal Word, through You all things were made, and in You are life and light.
Thank You for taking flesh and dwelling among us, full of grace and truth. Correct every thought of God that does not resemble You.
Give me faith to receive You, behold Your glory, and live as a child born of God. Amen.
Dwell This Week with God
Awaken to His presence.
Return often to John 1:1–18. Read without hurry, and allow the truth of who God is to become larger than every lesser concern.