In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. - Genesis 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. - John 1:1
In the early days, when I was young in the Lord, my friends and I were very passionate about soul winning. I still am, but I have lost touch with those friends so I cannot speak for them. We had "group evangelism", where we (a group of three or four) tried to speak with one person... I wouldn't do that today, I believe that anything more than two is a crowd, but in those days, that was what we did.
On one occasion, a member of the group told our potential spiritual client to replace the word for God in John 1:1 with love for God is love. God indeed is love - (1 John 4:8) and He (God) so loved us that He gave Yeshua for us, that we might live eternally (John 3:16). The thought of God's love still amazes me.
This moment however, I am awed by the fact that "in the beginning, God... and in the beginning was the word." The certainty of God's presence before it all began and the indubitableness of the word makes the greatness of God's love all the more amazing!
God the Word was there, as He is now and as He shall ever be. God the Word so loved that He spake, He gave and He made. God the Word, as in the beginning, is with me. THANK YOU!
