Di Word Become Human Body

Matthew start Christmas with family tree. Luke start with one priest inside di temple. But John go back pass dem. Before di manger. Before di stars. Before anything at all. For di beginning.

John na one of di closest friends of Jesus, fisherman from Galilee wey waka with am for many years. Di early Christian writers tell us say when John don old, e live for di big city of Ephesus, and na there e write im Gospel. E want make im readers, Jews and Greeks together, understand who Jesus really be. So e no start with angels or shepherds. E start with words wey sound like di very first words of di Bible.

For di beginning, di Word dey, John write, and di Word dey with God, and di Word na God. Word na how we dey show wetin dey our mind. When God talk for creation, things come into being. God talk say make light dey, and light come. John say dat Word no be just sound wey God make. Di Word na person, wey dey with God from di start, wey share everything wey God be. Na through am God make all things. No one thing wey dey exist wey dem make without am. Di stars, di seas, di small birds, and you.

And inside am life dey, John talk, and dat life na di light of everybody. Di light dey shine for darkness, and darkness no fit overcome am. Then John talk one thing wey dey pain heart. Di Word come inside di same world wey e make, and di world no recognise am. E come meet im own people, and plenty of im own people no receive am. Just think am. Di maker waka enter im own workshop, and di things wey e make no know im face.

But di matter no end there. Everybody wey receive am, wey trust im name, e give dem di right to become children of God. No be because dem born dem inside correct family, John talk, but na God born dem. Then di sentence wey be di heart of Christmas come. Di Word become human body and e live among us, and we see im glory, di glory of di only Son wey come from di Father, full of grace and truth. Di One wey make di stars become small baby. Di Word wey talk di world into being come learn how to talk im first words, inside one house, among neighbours.

When John talk say di Word live among us, di Greek word wey e use near di word for tent. If you translate am closer, e go be: e pitch im tent among us. John Jewish readers for remember di tabernacle, di tent for di wilderness where di glory of God come down to live among im people after dem comot from Egypt. John dey talk say now, di glory of God dey live among us inside one person.

Di Word Become Human Body. You go find am for John chapter one, verse one to fourteen. Christians dey read am every Christmas, because e dey tell us who di baby inside di manger really be. So see one question wey you go carry dey go. If di Maker of everything come live among us, how you go take welcome am?