40 for 40 Christmas Classics 16x9

Each week of Advent we will have a focus:  This week’s focus is “God our Maker”. Reading: John 1.1-4

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.

I was reading a sermon by John Piper the other day as I was reflecting on these four verses in John 1.  Piper says, “God didn’t come from anywhere. He always was there. He never had a beginning. He was there before anything else was. He made everything else. There wasn’t anything before God to bring him about.”  Simply amazing when we think about Jesus, as the revelation of God, who was in the beginning with God, is God Himself, is creator of all things, and He gives life. Jesus gives us the breathe we are breathing, but He gives more than that kind of life.  He gives abundant and eternal life (John 3.36; 10.10).  Let us worship Jesus the Life-Giver this advent season.   

Memory Verse:  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. John 1.1-3