Just a Word

May I have a word about words? More words about words does not sound very interesting, maybe redundant. Maybe these words just twist the tongue and confuse the mind, but I'd like to bring some clarity to that.

Where do we start with a blog with words about words? Well, in the beginning, of course.

You see the Word was in the beginning and the beginning the world was formless and void.

Silence.

Darkness.

Void.

Then a word was spoken.

And God said...

God said the first words spoken over the face of the deep. The Spirit of God hovered of the face of the waters.

And God said, "Let there be light."

The dark, formless void now had light due to the first four words spoken by the Creator.

"By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth." Psalm 33:6

This divine communication with the world is echoed through the Word, Himself. The Word was in the beginning, the Word was with God, the Word was God and is still heard today for those who are listening.

Words spoken must be heard.

Now, I'm going to get a little technical with words here so bare with me for a moment.

The Hebrew word used, in the Old Testament, for word used in speech, in a conversation is: 'dāḇār-' speech, word, speaking

The Hebrew word for Word, as in Word of God is: Heimrâ- Word of God- Torah

Then words change and flow differently in the New Testament thanks to the Greek influence of a Philosopher named Heraclitus, who first used the term Logos around 600 B.C. to designate the divine reason or plan which coordinates a changing universe. Logos is also used in the Greek as just a word for word.

Greek, New Testament: logos-speech, word,

In gospel of John he uses this word logos to "denote the essential Word of God, Jesus Christ, the personal wisdom and power in union with God, his minister in creation and government of the universe, the cause of all the world's life both physical and ethical, which for the procurement of man's salvation put on human nature in the person of Jesus the Messiah, the second person in the Godhead, and shone forth conspicuously from His words and deeds." (*Blue letter Bible reference.)

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 were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. John 1:1-5

Let there be light indeed.

Jesus existed in the beginning. The Word spoke the world into existence using His words and it was good.

Paul, beautifully puts into words, just how crucial and important this Christ is in terms of Creation in the book of Colossians.

Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see— such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him. He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together.

Colossians 1:15-17

He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth

by means of Christ’s blood on the cross. Colossians 1:20

The beautiful thing with God is he knew the full plan before the beginning had even begun according to Ephesians chapter 1.

All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure. Ephesians 1:3-5

In the beginning there was a plan. In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, the Word was God... and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14

The Word had spoken and the plan was to lay down the Word to speak life into those who would listen. The plan was for the Word to become human, to dwell among us and lay down his life. Every beginning has an end. Every sentence spoken ends with a punctuation resulting in the final thought. This plan from the beginning would end in three final words spoken by the Word while on this earth as He exclaimed, "It is finished!"

The world began with a Word, and ended with the final words of the Word bringing his plan full circle, bringing the plan to the cross. The plan set before words formed the foundation of the world was now in place. The Spirit hovering over the face of the deep, was now hovering over a crowd of accusers, the creation, killing their Creator. The beings spoken into existence by the very Word that spoke, was being sacrificed, was led as a lamb to the slaughter, yet He spoke not a word.

A few words to set the scene and to know the significance of this plan. Arms nailed to a cross, a blood stained crown of thorns, a body beaten, water and blood freely flowing. Some words need not to be spoken to know the significance of this plan. Words cannot express the greatness and glory of this sacrifice. The pain and agony he suffered cannot be fully expressed or described into words.

Yet he knew this plan had to come to fruition, it had to be done to save these people from their own sins. The first four words spoken, 'let there be light" bring light to the final three words spoken by the Word while on this earth and would solidify this plan set before time itself, these words would be heard and spoken of through generations to come and throughout eternity. "It is finished." Those three final words actually bring the opposite of finality, but a rather, take us to the beginning of a new life. For all believers who listen and obey

the Word will live on with Him and his words through eternity. That leaves me speechless.