As we study the titles of Christ in the first Chapter of St. John's Gospel, then we can clearly understand the Greatness and Glory of God:
- THE WORD: (John 1:1). Our character is revealed in the words we speak, so Jesus is the speech of the invisible God. Jesus has declared God as in John 14:9. The Psalmist said that the heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showed His handiwork to the ends of the earth, but in the fairest panorama of the starry heavens, or sunset clouds, there was never such a presentation of God in nature as we have in Jesus.
- THE CREATOR (John 1:2-3). In the strongest language he could command, the apostle inscribes the Name of Jesus on all things that are in heaven above and in the earth beneath. The iron of which the nails were made that transfixed Him to the Cross; the wood of which it was composed, the thorns which composed His crown, all were due to His creative call.
- THE LIFE AND LIGHT (John 1:4). It pleased the Father that life should reside in His human nature, as its cistern and reservoir, so that from Him we should derive eternal life, communicated through faith. In His life is light.
- THE MESSIAH (John 1:10-11). "He came unto His own."
- THE SHEKINAH (John 1:14). Now and again, during our Lord's earthly career, the curtain of His human nature seemed to part and to emit some gleams of the radiant splendor of His Being. It was so on the Transfiguration mount, and again in His Resurrection and Ascension. The glory was full of grace and truth.
- THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON (John 1:12-14).
We may be sons, thank God, but He was The Son. Whatever is implied in
that phrase "Only-Begotten, " He is separated from the noblest of the
children of men by a measureless and impassable depth, and yet how
wonderful it is, that He is not ashamed to call us brothers.
Let us give glory and homage to Him.
Taniela Fonua (AKA) Lapaifonua
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