Character study begins - Day 1

On Thursday I received a challenge to do the most complex character study I've ever done: Jesus. So I've begun today wig a reading plan I've found that should at least take me the next 3 months or so. I want to take notes & feel that here would be a good place for to share with those few who want to follow along. So we begin.

Who is he?

John 1:1-18

• with God in the Beginning


• the Word


• God


• the light


• The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.


• the true light


• gives light to everyone


• in the world, made the world, but the world did not recognize him


• He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.


• receives all who call His name as his children, children born of God


• dwelled among us in the flesh


• glorious


• the Son


• full of grace and truth


• 15: John (the Baptist?) - "He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me."


• While the law came from Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.


• is in "closest relationship with God" and makes Him known to us

I think of the darkest days of my life and how lost I felt in them. I dwell on the description of Christ as light, "the true light", which He gives freely to everyone. God, how I need that light! We were enslaved to the law until you became flesh, but then we were given grace and truth so that we might live. I love that Jesus is the intercessory force in our lives, as the one who died so that the curtain would be torn and we could be one with God, but also continuously makes Him known to us because of his close relationship to Him. I'm still extremely confused by the complex nature of the "trinity" concept, but I am trusting that in this life or beyond God will reveal this to me, and hopefully even in this life will make it at least somewhat more clear.