Verse of the Day

Published on October 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM

God became human

Logos (λόγος)

  • – The eternal Word, divine reason, or self-expression of God.

  • In Greek thought, logos meant reason, order, or the underlying logic of the universe.

  • In Hebrew thought, “the Word of God” (davar YHWH) was God’s active, creative power.

  • John fuses both — saying that the creative power behind all existence became a person.

Sarx (σάρξ)

  • –Flesh, full human nature.
  • The Greek word sarx means more than “body.” It means full human nature — frailty, limitation, vulnerability.
    God didn’t just appear human; He became one of us.

Eskēnōsen (ἐσκήνωσεν)
  •  “Tabernacled,” or dwelled among us
  • God’s presence made personal.Literally, “He pitched His tent among us.”
  • It echoes the Old Testament Tabernacle, where God’s glory once dwelled among Israel in a tent in the wilderness.
  • Now, that same glory walks among people again — not behind a veil, but in the person of Jesus.

Charis kai Alētheia (χάρις καὶ ἀλήθεια)

“Grace and truth.” The perfect balance of mercy and reality, love and holiness.

The Word didn’t come to escape the world, but to redeem it.
He wore our weakness so we could wear His glory.

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John 1:14

“The Word became flesh and lived among us. We saw His glory, the glory as of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.”

Context

John opens his Gospel with a sweeping, eternal vision — “In the beginning was the Word…” (John 1:1).
Now, in verse 14, eternity steps into time.
The eternal Logos — the divine Word who spoke creation into being — became flesh.

This one sentence captures the mystery of the Incarnation:
God became human — not as an idea, not as a distant force, but as a man who walked dusty roads, felt pain, laughed with friends, and suffered for love.

John isn’t writing theory; he’s bearing witness.

“We have seen His glory.”
He’s speaking as one who looked Jesus in the eye and saw divinity clothed in humanity.

In Jesus,
God didn’t just visit
He moved in.

The glory once veiled behind temple walls
now walked in dusty sandals.
Grace and truth stopped being ideas
and took on a heartbeat
a voice,
a face,
a name.

The Word became flesh,
and stepped right into our chaos
into hunger and heartbreak,
temptation and tears
yet never once lost His holiness,
never once stopped being grace wrapped in truth.

The same God who spoke, “Let there be light,”
stepped into our shadows
and whispered,
“Follow Me.”

Application

  • Embrace God’s nearness. You don’t have to reach up to heaven — heaven has already reached down to you. For many, it just means giving God our yes where we have been saying no. What are you actually afraid would happen if you tried his way? 

  • Let grace and truth live together in you. Jesus never compromised either — He loved fully and spoke truthfully. In what areas of your life are you allowing compromise to justify your sin? Today is the day you step away and let the light reach those spaces you reserved for later.

  • Remember: your life is now a tabernacle. His Spirit dwells in you just as His presence once filled the temple. What we consume, we expose to the spirit that dwells inside us. The entertainment, the social media we binge on to "catch up" so many ways we can grieve the spirit inside. 

Prayer

“Lord Jesus, thank You for becoming one of us.
You walked where I walk, felt what I feel, and showed me what love looks like with skin on. Remind me when life hurts that you, too, hurt. You hurt when I say no when a yes would bring blessings. You hurt when I say yes and overwhelm myself with activities and fail to rest in You. You hurt when I continue to make the same choices of yesterday and think that today would be any different. Help me be the part that is different today. 
Help me live with both grace and truth — tender in compassion, steady in conviction. Full of grace and mercy for others. Help me be slow to respond, learning to lean into your peace, not trying to create my own. My sense of peace, Father often leaves me seeking more, but when I rest in You, that changes, and I feel fulfilled. Let my life reflect the beauty of Your presence living within me. Amen.”

 

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