Today we come to the pilot episode of creation. Do these words sound familiar to you, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” What came first, the Word or the heavens and earth? The apostle John starts this gospel account with a direct parallel account of creation. We can see that he uses similar language that is found in Genesis chapter 1. John intentionally uses creation language to show and portray the person that his gospel account is going to be about. The New Testament is the best commentary that we have on the Old Testament. All our New Testament books have references from the Old Testament and even expound on the Old Testament. One of the parallels that we see clearly is the mention of light. In Genesis 1, light was the first thing that was brought into a world that was dark and void. We see now that the language used in Genesis would be later used by John to make spiritual parallels in the beginning of his gospel account. Even though everything was already physically created when John was writing, he uses that language to portray the spiritual darkness and void that was in the world. The world was dark, their eyes have been darkened by sin, by the evil of the world, by the works of Satan. The world was also void of God; these people worshiped everything else but God. But when Jesus stepped into the world, he was like that light in Genesis that made everything bright and exposed everything hiding in darkness. Jesus is the light that would bring eternal life to all who would come to him. We also see that John is showing us that the person who created the earth, the person who brought everything into existence was Christ. Christ was the one who created everything, he is the one that spoke and whatever was spoken was made. That means that Christ has always been, Jesus did not begin existing when he was in Mary’s womb. Jesus, one of the people of the Godhead has always been reigning since time even began. This is deeply theologically important for us to grasp because we see very clearly the triune nature of the Godhead and how they work. Later in the chapter we see the work of the Spirit in the life of Jesus.  All three people of the Godhead had been eternally residing together and Jesus, one of the people of the Godhead comes and speaks this world into existence, and on top of that he is the one who created Adam, and he created Adam in his image. What is interesting to see is that instead of referring to Jesus as the “Christ” he refers to him as “The Word.” In Greek it is the word ‘Logos’ which is very difficult to fully understand and to try to explain in short. This word ‘Logos’ is used to personify the wisdom, power, mighty works, divine will, love, and the word of God. The reason he personifies it is because all these things from God the Father are revealed in Jesus Christ his Son (The Word) to us. God has revealed himself to us through the ‘Logos’ who will ultimately carry out the divine will of God for those in creation. Brothers and sisters, Jesus Christ (The Word) has come to be the lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world. The very one who created us, is the very one who gave his life for us, when you meditate on this it is humbling to know that Christ loved us enough to this. Sometimes it's hard to wrap my mind around it.