LET THERE BE....
In Genesis, the first book of the Bible, God is presented as speaking the creation into existence. God speaks the word and it happens: heaven and earth, ocean and stream, trees and grass, birds and fish, animals and humans. Everything, seen and unseen, called into being by God’s spoken word.
In deliberate parallel to the opening words of Genesis, John presents God as speaking salvation into existence. This time God’s word takes on human form and enters history in the person of Jesus. Jesus speaks the word and it happens: forgiveness and judgment, healing and illumination, mercy and grace, joy and love, freedom and resurrection. Everything broken and fallen, sinful and diseased, called into salvation by God’s spoken word.
-Eugene Peterson
posted by jeb at 9:48 PM
1 Comments:
Richard Mulholland, in his book, Shaped by the Word, attests that we are the word..thus everything we do communicates the living word, Jesus. A lot of responsibility that.
(in other news, I'm shocked: two postings in a manner of days? I'd given up.)
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