Logos.

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it..."

- John 1:1-5

Regardless of how many times I read this, it never fails to awe me with its simple statement of truth, fact, reality. Word = logos, reason; per Heraclitus, the rational principle that pervades human thought; the reason that rules the universe; the moment of beginning or root cause; genesis - the beginning.

The Word - Logos - was with God in the beginning...Jesus, the God-Man, as the Root Cause, the Beginning, the Rational Principle - embodied in vulnerable flesh and making his dwelling among us. And the world did not recognize him...

"He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him." (Jn 1:11). How tragic that a world, the kosmos of mankind, has become so twisted, strayed so far from true Reality that it does not welcome him, embrace him when he walks among us as one of us.

"...but in these last days, He has spoken to us by his Son...The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word." (Heb. 1:2-3).

Jesus, as the exact representation of the LORD, the embodiment in flesh of the Creator. If I truly desire to be a Christ-follower, an embodiment myself of Jesus and thus of God, how different would I live my life? Would I recognize this fragile shell as redeemed, transformed by the sacrifice of Christ, and now a holy representation of God himself?

In him was life....the One and Only Son, who is at the Father's side, has made the LORD known to the world.