Gospel
25
December 2017
The Nativity of Our Lord
Jesus Christ John 1:1-14
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 without
him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life,
and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and
the darkness did not overcome it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was
John. He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe
through him. He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light.
The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in
the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not
know him. He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him.
But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become
children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of
the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and
we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and
truth.
I love the First Chapter of John. Luke is wonderful, but the passage of John
gives meat to what Luke has to say about the birth of the Christ. Luke gives us the physical narrative. John gives us the spiritual narrative. John never mentions the child. He reflects on the fact that this Jesus is
the one true God who has broken into the very world that he helped create at
the beginning of time, who was God from before the beginning of time and who will
continue on as God when time ceases to be forevermore, and the Kingdom of God
endures forever, On Christmas Day, we
look to the God who is God without end, celebrating the world that is the
Kingdom of God that endures forever, into which we are called by Christ, who
claims us forever from the depths of the eternal love of God.
Father Timothy+
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