Nativity - A Devotional Commentary On The Birth Of Christ - By J. Michael Herron

Chapter 2: HE CREATED ALL THINGS – John 1:3-5 (December 15th)

od created everything through his love. The focus shifts from the Word, the audible revelation of God to the Light, the visible revelation of God. ‘Divine being gives way to divine action.’ 1 Jesus the Word participates fully with the Father and the Spirit in the creation of everything that has come into being.

3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing

was made that has been made. (NIV)

The entire intellectual world outside of Judaism and Christianity believed that the universe was uncreated and eternal. Christianity has always believed in a creation out of nothing. Through him …reveals Christ as the spoken Word of the creation account in Genesis. ‘ In the beginning God (the Father) created the heavens and the earth…And the Spirit of God (The Holy Spirit) was hovering over the surface of the waters. Then God said (Christ The Word) , “Let there be light,” and there was light.’ The plurality of persons within the Trinity is also alluded to in Genesis 1:26 ‘Let us make man in our image, to be like us.’ In the first sentence of verse 3, the creative act is stated positively and then reinforced by being repeated negatively. The positive statement encompasses the totality of everything that has been created. The second negative statement refers to each individual created thing. ‘Every single thing that now exists traces its existence back to the past moment when it first entered existence.’ 2 The most profound question of the human heart, ‘where did we come from?’ is answered by this prologue to John’s gospel. The only logical answer to the existence of a creation is a creator. Hebrews tells us the way of understanding this mystery is by faith; ‘By faith we understand that the entire universe was