Meet the author of life (John 1:1–14)

What’s life about? Its architect knows.

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¹ It all started with what the Author said.
What he wrote reflects the Author.
² The Author was present in what he wrote.

³ The whole story came out of his being.
Not a single thing came from elsewhere.

⁴ It all came to life with his life.
He was the spark of human life.
⁵ That spark still shines in dark places.
The dark never overpowered it.

⁶ The Author wrote someone named John into his story.
^7-8 His role was to draw attention to the light.
He wasn’t the light, just pointing to the light,
so everyone would be loyal to the light through his evidence.
⁹ What John pointed to was the source of light,
the spark of everyone life.
The Author of Light was stepping into
the world of his story.

¹⁰ Yes, he was here, in the world he established as his story.
No, his world did not know who he was.
¹¹ He approached the characters of his own story,
but they turned away from him.

¹² For those who did receive him,
he gave an authoritative role in his story:
being ‘children of the Author’
because they relied on his name.

¹³ That life is not inherited from your kin.
It’s not defined by your genes
or set out in a human script.
‘Children of God’ come to life
with the Author’s life.

¹⁴ What the Author wrote came into being
as he stepped into the story and lived among us.
We saw his brilliance —
the brilliance of the unique Child
born of the Author,
radiating his life-giving character,
full of the truth of his life.

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Full disclosure: this mediation was based on John 1:1-14, though it doesn’t begin to do justice to everything the fourth evangelist packed into his prologue.

Author: Allen Browne

Seeking to understand Jesus in the terms he chose to describe himself: son of man (his identity), and kingdom of God (his mission). Riverview Church, Perth, Western Australia View all posts by Allen Browne