JESUS SAID TO PILATE, “FOR THIS REASON I WAS BORN, AND FOR THIS REASON I CAME INTO THE WORLD – TO TESTIFY TO THE TRUTH.”  JESUS LIVED THE TRUTH, HE SPOKE THE TRUTH, HE IS THE TRUTH.  

HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR US TO GRASP THE REALITY OF THE INCARNATION, THAT GOD BECAME FLESH, THAT GOD BECAME A TRUE HUMAN BEING.  HE ALONE CAN FULLY REVEAL TO US THE NATURE OF GOD, THE PURPOSE OF GOD IN CREATION, AND THE WILL OF GOD CONCERNING EACH ONE OF US.  

THE APOSTLE JOHN TESTIFIES, “WHAT WAS FROM THE BEGINNING, WHAT WE HAVE HEARD, WHAT WE HAVE SEEN WITH OUR EYES, WHAT WE BEHELD AND OUR HANDS HANDLED, CONCERNING THE WORLD OF LIFE – AND THE LIFE WAS MANIFESTED, AND WE HAVE SEEN AND BEAR WITNESS AND PROCLAIM TO YOU THE ETERNAL LIFE, WHICH WAS WITH THE FATHER AND WAS MANIFESTED TO US – WHAT WE HAVE SEEN AND HEARD WE PROCLAIM TO YOU ALSO, THAT YOU ALSO MAY HAVE FELLOWSHIP WITH US, AND INDEED OUR FELLOWSHIP IS WITH THE FATHER, AND WITH HIS SON JESUS CHRIST.  AND THISE THINGS WE WRITE, SO THAT OUR JOY MAY BE MADE COMPLETE.” 1John 1:1-4

THE WORD OF GOD IS LIVING IN JESUS.  THE LIVING WORD UNLOCKS THE WRITTEN WORD.  DOCTRINES AND CREEDS ARE MAN’S WORDS THAT SEEK TO DEFINE THE TRUTHS OF THE BIBLE, AND EVEN THEY MAY BECOME IDOLS THAT CAN HIDE THE LIVING TRUTH.  “THE LETTER KILLS.  THE SPIRIT GIVES LIFE.”

THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS THE WORD OF GOD!

Rosemary E. Hyslop