The revelation of the Son

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,

Because the Lord has anointed me. Isaiah 61:1

 

Read John 1:29—34

I can catch a rising excitement in John, and I think I know just a little of it. He is seeing things in Jesus. They are coming to him like a revelation, an insight from God. He feels he’s barely known Jesus until now. But now that he’s getting the point of who Jesus is, everything around him is adding up. John is getting a new perspective on himself, and it’s a big one. He sees that he’s been doing what he’s been given to do, baptising, for a very grand purpose, that the Lamb of God, the Son of God, the Spirit-filled one, the world’s Saviour, may be revealed to John’s people, to Israel. John knows he himself has been sent. As I look back over this day, or previous days, it is worth asking myself: does the presence of Jesus in my life, and who he is, give me any of the same excitement about why I am here?

 

God, the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, here tonight I can declare my faith in you by declaring who Jesus is in this short passage: the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world; the one who was in the beginning; the Spirit-filled man; the one who baptises, washes and cleanses me in the Holy Spirit; the Son of God. As I call him who he is tonight, I thank you for who he makes me to be: forgiven, a creature among the blessed creatures of your creation, one who lives my whole life in Christ, filled with the Spirit, child of God.