@honeyflex360 16 January 2022

In The Beginning Was The Word

16TH OF JANUARY, 2021 08:54AM John chapter 1 verse 1 : "*In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God".* I once heard a couple of sleepless nights, over the above phrase because I couldn't phantom what it meant categorically. I thought of various things including : ***Its complication from Genesis 1:1*** ***What was John, the writer of that verse trying to get across.*** ***Why compare God to a mere word.*** ***If God was with the word, then why is that same word God.*** Well the next morning, I couldn't stop myself visiting my pastor, to decipher the truth and potentially differentiate facts from friction. If I can remember vividly, giving word for word, I got the following reply: *"Welcome, have your sit." (He paused for a second and looked intently at me). Then he said: " With everything you have asked, I can see your inquisitiveness. You have to understand that reading the Bible, time and again gives you different meanings. That is, when you read once you have a different meaning, and on reading again, the meaning you get will be completely different from the first, and the trend continues on and on".* Not satisfied, I asked: *"Why does the same word of God give you different meanings, and yet adding two to two always equal four".* And Replying: *"When you have the Holy Spirit, it interpretes the word of God and gives you different meanings. It not only does that with only the word of God, it gives you also, interpretations of different things of this world".* Sensing I was still confused with the look on my face, he continued: *" Look, I have finished reading the Bible 58 times and I am 58 years old, that is a corresponding statistics of once in one year of my life". And that also means, I have 58 meanings of that verse you came here to ask for by the special grace of God".* Flabbergasted, I simply couldn't talk. *"* *Digressing a little, you have to know that God is the creator of the universe, he owns the supreme control over every other creature including the word. But the word isn't his creature, because as John pointed out, in the beginning was the word, the word being God. And it would be illogically impossible for God to be created by God. The existence of God is a mystery and you shouldn't query the Almighty that created you and even that art of query".* Still shocked, I couldn't talk but I was beginning to understand his point and what he was driving at. *"* *He created all things with the word and by simply uttering out that word, whatever he wanted was so.* •••••••••••••••••••••••• "*It* *isn't a complication of Genesis, it is the same thing. He created heaven and Earth with the word, because he is the word and he is God".* I couldn't remember everything he said.lol!!. But the little I remember I believe it is enough to show that God owns the word, has the supreme control over it, then there is simply nothing he says that won't be coming to fruition. **Thanks for sparing your time to read.** Remember, God loves you....... `shout-out to my amazing sponsors. They have been excellent, you may check out their articles too.`