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None of the other disciples better captured our genesis in God,
beyond our natural conception! This is not about our blood lineage
or whether we were a wanted- or unwanted-child; this is about our
God-begotteness. John 1:13. We are his dream come true and not the
invention of our parents. You are indeed the greatest idea that God
has ever had! John has no desire to outwit the others in giving an
even more accurate historic account of Christ! The life that was
manifest within his sacred gaze and now tangible embrace is a
fellowship of the highest order! He must write; he must extend this
reality to his immediate audience as well as the next generations!
"I am writing this to complete your joy!" 1 John 1:4 Unlike Matthew
and Luke who wrote 30 years prior to him, John did not bother to
locate Jesus in the setting of his natural lineage. Instead he
declares, "In the beginning was the Word!" Before history was ever
recorded the Word was! Mankind pre-existed in the Logic of God! He
understands that the Word was both the eternal source and destiny
of all things and that nothing could ever reduce or confine the
Word to an isolated island experience, neither could the Word be
trapped in human doctrine or tradition. No inferior translation or
interpretation could compromise God's original intent. The
authentic integrity of God's thought would forever be preserved and
celebrated in the incarnation; human life would be the
uninterrupted future of the Word. In John 14:20 Jesus declares the
conclusion of his mission where in his death and resurrection every
possible definition of separation will be cancelled: "In that day
you will know that we are in seamless union with one another! I am
in my Father, you are in me and I am in you!" (The incarnation does
not divide the Trinity; the incarnation celebrates the redeemed
inclusion of humanity! Picture four circles with the one fitting
into the other - The outer circle is the Father, then Jesus in the
Father, then us in Jesus and the Holy Spirit in us! This spells
inseparable, intimate oneness! Note that it is not our knowing that
positions Jesus in the Father or us in them or the Spirit of Christ
in us! Our knowing simply awakens us to the reality of our redeemed
oneness! Gold does not become gold when it is discovered but it
certainly becomes currency!)
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