Beginnings: Who God Said?
Light of the World - William Hunt
In my post discussing the Holy Trinity in the Beginning, I talk about how Jesus was present at Creation.
He was the ‘Word’ God spoke, who then brought order to the formless Earth and created Reality.
When God said, ‘Let there be light’, it was created through the pre-incarnate Jesus, the second person of the Trinity.
This is developed in John 1 v 4:
In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.
The rest of Creation then comes to be through Christ as the Word.
And even now Creation continues to be held together by the ‘Word of the Lord’ incarnated as Jesus.
Col 1 v 17
He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
Jesus is not only the Co-Creator with God the Father and the Holy Spirit, but He is also the means by which the universe continues to be sustained.
Jesus, The Wisdom of God
In Proverbs 8, we see how God used Wisdom to create the Heavens and the Earth. Wisdom was a Co-Creater.
Proverbs 8 v 22 - 31
The LORD possessed me at the beginning of His way. From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, before the earth began.
When there were no watery depths, I was brought forth, when no springs were overflowing with water.
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth, before He made the land or fields, or any of the dust of the earth.
I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep, when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth, when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.
Then I was a skilled craftsman at His side, and His delight day by day, rejoicing always in His presence. I was rejoicing in His whole world, delighting together in the sons of men.
Paul refers to Jesus as being the Wisdom of God in 1 Corinthians.
1 Cor 1 v 24
Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
The early Christians identified the Wisdom of God with Jesus. Jesus’ role in Creation aligns with Wisdom in Proverbs 8.
Light of the World
A quarter of all the healings of Jesus involved healing sight. In John 9, before the healing happens, Jesus states, ‘He is the Light of the World’.
This is a direct allusion to John 1 and Genesis 1. Jesus is both the Co-Creator of the physical light in Creation, but also the spiritual light.
He brings light, even to those born blind.
Tradition says that the man in John 9 was born without eye balls, which explains why everyone in the story was so shocked. This is why Jesus spits on the ground, forms mud and places it in the blind man’s eye sockets. If true, this is the only miracle where Jesus creates a new body part and shows Christ is the Creator God whose commands bring the physical world into existence.
Even those without the ability to see physical light can, along with the rest of humanity, see the true Light of World, Jesus Christ.