From the beginning
You’re the Word of God the Father
From before the world began. Stewart Townend
Read Job 38:4-7
Tonight I’m listening in on a man called Job who is in personal spiritual turmoil because he’s lost family, fortune, everything, and can’t figure out how it could ever compute that God has any care of him or is actually a blessing to him within the whole wide creation. Then God prods him in his thinking. He has to imagine what was before himself. I am taken there too. Before anything was anything. Before I had anything to do or anything to lose. What was there? What could I get hold of before anything was? My answer to this has to be, there was the Word of God.[1] The Word was in the beginning, before anything else was. So he, the Word who became flesh and lived among us,[2] is the one who I can never surpass for anything more fundamental. He is the one I can never lose.
Prayer
God of all creation, the stars I can see in the night sky are far more ancient than I. The things I agonise over and then lose are so brief, so transient, so lately come by and so easily lost. Yet the losing of them makes me cry out for what cannot be lost and will not be lost. I thank you that you will use even my little wants for little things to call me to seek for what is not to be taken from me, for what is truly mine, for the Word of God who was with you from the beginning, for the Word who is God, for the Word who speaks as Jesus, and for when he speaks to me, for when he speaks my name. The Word from the beginning speaks my name!
[1] John 1:1
[2] John 1:14