I was reading my Geneva Bible,* as I do most early mornings, and I came to John Chapter one. It is about the “Word” and says in verse 4, that “it was life and the life was the light of men.” Verse 14 says “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we saw the glory thereof, as the glory of the only begotten Son of the Father) full of grace and truth." By this description of the Word, we can easily recognize that this speaks of Jesus.
The verse that really stood out to me was verse nine: “This was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” John 1:9, Geneva.
When I read that verse, I remembered a night in 1975 when my wife and I were trying to understand a chapter in the New Testament. We both read it to each other aloud several times and we could not understand what it was saying. A week later, we went to a prayer meeting in someone’s home and both of us asked Jesus into our lives to be our Lord and Savior. When we arrived back home, we read the exact same scripture as before and we both understood it easily.
What was the difference? The only change was the coming of the Holy Spirit to dwell in us. It was as if we were blinded until we accepted Jesus and then our blinders were taken off. We were amazed. It is additional evidence of the existence of God and verification that Jesus is the true Messiah of God prophesied in the Old Testament.
*If you don’t know, the Geneva Bible was the bible used by the founders of what is now the United States of America. It was translated in 1599, twelve years before the King James Version (1611). At first reading, it reads much like the King James, but some words seem to convey more accurate meaning of the scriptures than other bibles.
