The power of God displayed in Jesus

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “God’s power for you and in you.”

Our Bible verse for today: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. All things were created through him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created.” John 1:1-3 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “The power of God displayed in Jesus”

In yesterday’s devotional we saw that before the Bible tells us anything else about God, it gives us a vivid picture of the power of God evidenced by His massive creative power. He spoke all creation into existence. That includes the entire universe and all it contains. Nothing speaks more about the power of God than the enormity, the complexity, and the beauty of His creation.

Now, at the very beginning of the Gospel of John, the Bible tells us that Jesus is that Creator. First, we find that He is the Word of God. A word communicates meaning. As the Word of God Jesus communicates to us everything about God that God wants us to know about Himself. As Hebrews 1:3 tells us, “He is the exact representation of God.” But Jesus is also the Word of God in the respect that He spoke on behalf of God. In the case of creation, as John 1:3 tells us, it was Jesus as God who spoke creation into existence in those early chapters of Genesis.

This truth has great implications for us and we will come back to it in future devotional messages this month. For now, this morning, I want to come back to the point from yesterday about the tremendous power of God that is on full display in the creation. God wants us to remain conscious of that, and He wants us to factor it into our thinking about Him. He wants us to think about the implications this truth has for us. That’s what He taught Job in Job chapters 38-42 where God forces him to consider who it is he is dealing with:

“Where were you when I established the earth?” (38:4) “Have you ever in your life commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place?” (38:12) “Have you traveled to the sources of the sea or walked in the depths of the oceans?” (38:16) “Have you comprehended the extent of the earth?” (38:18) “Have you entered the place where the snow is stored? Or have you seen the storehouses of hail?” (38:22) “Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you? Can you send out lightening bolts?” (38:34-35) And on and on it goes for five chapters. God’s point for Job was, “I am God, Job, and you are not.”

The same holds true for us. He is God and we are not. He is all-powerful, and we are not. We need to remember that as we’re considering God and His ways, and the ways in which He acts or doesn’t act in our lives.

From beginning to end the Bible calls our attention to the power of God on full display for us – on the pages of Scripture but also in the world all around us. We see it through the actions of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and always it is at work for us, in us, and ultimately, in varying degrees and for specific purposes, through us. We will spend the rest of the month seeing how that is so.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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