Who Is the Word?

John 1:1-2

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.”

What Word is this passage talking about? I have wondered for many years what those two verses meant exactly. I have taken some guesses, but none of them made much sense to me. And so I drifted about in the beginning of the Gospel of John.

I don’t know if anyone else has had this kind of difficulty while reading the Bible. Sometimes I just am not certain what is being discussed. Part of it has to do with the use of metaphors which sometimes I do not understand.

However, the beginning of John is now making sense to me for some reason. The “Word” in this instance is Jesus. What John is saying to us was that “in the beginning was Jesus”; and “the Word [Jesus] was with God; and “the Word [Jesus] was God”. “He [Jesus] was with God from the beginning.” Jesus = God as we have been told since we were children.

Maybe the Word has always been Jesus, and I didn’t realize it. That is absolutely possible. I did not think that “the Word” was a person. I evidently thought that “the Word” was God speaking…and so He was in a way which was different from what I thought. I must have been hiding my head in the sand!

Carol

Bible Breath: Jesus is Word / the Word is God