There is a deep poetry to to John 1, "In the beginning was the Word ..." The poetry goes beyond simply the repetition of the words and the familiarity of the message to something deeper. Contained in that opening message is also that powerful state, "the Word became flesh and dwelt among us." What is "the Word?" What is any word except language, that thing which we use to refer to ideas and objects. So what does "the Word" become except the ultimate in ideas, the ultimate in objects, the very presence of God, made flesh to dwell among us. Jesus becomes the message, the idea of who God is, of what God stands for, and Jesus then dwells among us.
So how do we talk about God? What words do we use to describe God? If there was a "word" what would that word be, peace, love, justice, grace,power, everything? How can encompass God in words? How do we understand God better because of actions? Some of the beauty of Jesus is in Jesus we can see the juxtaposition of the human and the divine, what it looks like for God to be human and what it looks like for a human to be God. Perhaps the whole message of the Gospels is to take our words and make them flesh, to stop talking and start doing. We may not be able to agree on what it means for God to be a God of love and grace, but on the other hand through our actions we can show it. How do we use language to describe our faith nd ho do we try and make the language of our faith have flesh and form?
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