Christians believe that God has entered into His own creation, and that He enters the created order so that humanity and nature itself might be redeemed. This thought is simply too much for some, and is summarily dismissed as ridiculous or unthinkable. Yet, at the heart of our Faith is the remarkable belief that “the Word became flesh, and dwelt among” (John 1:14a). One of the men who was closest to Jesus for three years proclaimed, “we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14b). Surely it is a huge thing to get our minds around, and the fact that God enters into His own creation is indeed a marvelous wonder and mystery.

I am intrigued that what the apostle John wanted us first and foremost to see about Jesus is that He came to us “full of grace and truth.” He wasn’t simply one of us; He was “the true Light which, coming into the world, enlightens every man” (John 1:9). And exactly how did the true Light come when He came to us. He came, “full of grace and truth.”

What do grace and truth look like? They look like Jesus. If grace and truth could be personified they would look like Jesus. He did not come to judge us into submission. He came to lift us up into the very life of God by a grace and truth that astounds the imagination. He came as Light in a dark place and to those who dare “believe in Him,” this Divine Light “gave the right to become children of God” (John 1:12).

May we take the Light and live the life of one who has tasted both grace and truth. God dwells among us and we don’t have to live in the past and we don’t have to live defeated. He calls us to the Light and nobody can ever extinguish this Light (John 1:5). “In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men” (John 1:4).

Let’s get busy living because we have tasted God’s grace and truth.