the word becomes flesh

"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 were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it...

The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him...

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth...

And from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace."

a claim as a follower of Christ carries incredible weight. we are to be the body, the representation, of Jesus to His world. we are filled with His Spirit to do greater things. we are the bride. we are the herald. we are the vessels through which His love and power travel on this earth. we are the temple in which His Spirit dwells. we are adopted as sons and daughters to carry the name of our Father and to represent our family well. in reading the scripture above i can't help but to apply this to life as we know it. the Word, the fullness of the gospel, the Kingdom proclaimed, with all of its saving power, was in the beginning, and all things are from and for it. life and light has its source and its purpose in the Word. the Word is the reason and the explanation for all things. and yet, though it is everything - the world did not know Him. and the Word became flesh. the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, in love, and in action, and showed us who He was and what the Word really looked like and then we saw his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. His glory was seen by His acts as a human, by His communal living of the Word. His example of grace and of truth in body and deed. and from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. the fullness of the Word was completed in the fleshing out of the Word. when the Word dwelt among people in love, in action, in power - in its fullness - we, then, all received grace upon grace. colossians 2 tells us that in Him the the fullness of God dwells in body, and we are filled in Him, to walk in Him, to be rooted and built up in Him, and to be established in the faith. in Him - the Word, the fullness of God in body. we are to live out - in the flesh - the gospel. Ephesians 3 says that for the riches of His glory, we pray, that by the power of His Spirit, Christ will dwell in our hearts through faith, and again, that we will be rooted and grounded in love...and know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that we may be filled with all the fullness of God. because of the passage from john 1 above i can't help but see that the being filled with that fullness is the direct effect of the Word becoming flesh and dwelling with the people. so: we say, in word, we believe in the power over sin and death by way of the act of the cross and the resurrection of Christ - we are to live that belief. we are to live out the repentance we put on our tongues. we are to live as sons and daughters of the Most High if we claim, in word, to have been gracefully adopted by Him. if we proclaim a gospel with healing, saving power - we are to live out healing and saving, with power. if we say we belong to His Kingdom - we are to live as if He is our King, and bow only to Him. if we say we fear God, and not man, in word - we are to live it. and so on and so on. my life has had far too many empty words as i claim to follow Christ in its fullness. His lead shows Word entering into life, love, action. my following should be His Word on my tongue entering into life, love, action.