John 1:1-4 In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life and the life was the light of men.
We are familiar with this passage. We realize that Jesus was God and He was with God and He created all things. We realize He is the light of all men and we are fortunate when we realize our need for Him. Yet, we don’t realize what has been given to us. Our minds cannot comprehend the vastness of the goodness of God.
John 1:18 says, “No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.” I looked up the original word translated “the only begotten”; the word is monogenes. The editor of the Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible, Spiros Zodhiates, admits that this word is “unfortunately translated as the only begotten”. He states that the word monogenes is used to show a very special relationship between the Father and the Son. When we read the word (begotten) we get the idea that Jesus was generated by the Father. A better description is “the unique Son who being in the bosom of the Father, He Himself brought Him out.” In verse 1 when it says that the Word became flesh – the word for became is a word that means “to become something you have never been before”.
So, here is what the Lord has been speaking to me this morning: Jesus, for the first time in all eternity, was brought out of the Father and chose to be placed, from that unique and glorious position of unity and oneness, into flesh. He became like one of us because He wanted us to be united with Him as He is united with the Father. Jesus, in the last few hours of His life, while with His closest 11 friends prayed, “Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one, even as we are one.” (Jn. 17:11) Then in the last breath of His prayer He said, “I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known; that the love with which You loved Me may be in them.” (John 17:26)
So, Jesus allowed Himself to be brought out of the Father so that we could be brought into the Father! Do you see that all of creation is groaning for the sons of God to be revealed? Rom. 8:19
Jesus said, “In that day you shall know that I am in My Father, and you in Me and I in you.” The truth is that if we are in Christ, we cannot distance ourselves from God. The deceiver whispers “you are far away from God and you must hide”, but Jesus stepped out of the Father, so that He could bring us into that most intimate of places: into the embrace of God (into the bosom of the Father). Sons and daughters will discover their identity in the embrace of the Father.
Let yourself see and know this truth: If you are in Christ… all things, all things are new. You are someone who you have never been before. If you are in Him all things work together for your good; i.e. every circumstance and situation does not have its’ origin in Him, but He will use all things, good or bad, of your doing or of someone else’s doing, for your good. As Don Finto says, “God wastes nothing!” If you are in Him, you are in the Father and you cannot be separated from the Father or His love or His adoration or His constant delight. All things belong to you, and you belong to Christ; and Christ belongs to God. (1 Cor. 3:23) Know this truth and this truth will set you free!!!
Sons and daughters of God, know who you are and know Whose you are. Sons and daughters of God, the earth is groaning for you to lay down your orphan way of thinking, your striving and your fear, and be revealed in truth and identity and love. Sons and daughters, there is no greater place in all of eternity than in the Father’s embrace.