The Message of the Light | Advent | John 1:1-14
The message of Christmas has been sullied for many years. Often, it boils down to a saccharine sweet message of good tidings that delight for a day but, like the peppermint canes of Christmas, last but a day before dissolving into the harsh realities of life. But the actual message of Christmas is different. It moves us from the ethereal to the real and that is precisely what God did by becoming a man. It isn’t just that Jesus came with a message, Jesus IS the message. John’s prologue gives us a beautiful entry into this message. John intends for this to be the entry into the whole Gospel itself. And when we receive this message (v. 12), it changes our lives—our identities and our way of living.