The Apostle John knew Jesus well and knew he was God incarnate. Jesus wasn’t born in a stable. A body of flesh was born that Jesus chose to inhabit. There is a reason John’s gospel names Jesus “the Word.” Anytime there is a capital “W,” it means Jesus.

Jesus existed at the beginning of time and “by him all things were created” (John 1:2–3). Jesus was with God when the world was created. Jesus is God incarnate, and Jesus is the Holy Spirit that came to indwell you when you made him your Lord. 

Countless commentary has been written about the Holy Trinity, yet God’s triune nature remains a mystery to our finite minds. How can God be one, yet three? The answer to that question is as infinite as God.

Understanding God isn’t necessary to accepting him. We don’t expect two-year-olds to solve complicated math equations, and the created shouldn’t expect to understand the Creator. 

God loved us so much that he stepped out of heaven and took the form of an infant. Christmas is our living example of God’s unsearchable grace and love. He humbled himself, choosing a human existence, so he could one day bear our sins. 

Jesus is today who Jesus was in the beginning. We bow our heads and usually picture Jesus as the earthly man described in the Gospels. He isn’t that man any longer. He is the Word, who was with God, who was God, and who still is God. Jesus is also the Holy Spirit, the power of God for the salvation of man. He is our counselor, comforter, our Savior, and our Lord. 

We don’t need to understand the Holy Trinity to know the three are one God. They existed in the beginning, and they will exist forever. And those who are saved will meet the Word, face-to-face. He will stand with us on the day of judgment. He will walk with us in heavenly places. His face is what we will see when we take our last breath on earth and our first breath of eternal air.

The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. All Christians will dwell with him one day. Take a moment and see the Word as he is today—glorified as he was in the beginning. That is the face of the one you will see when you enter heaven.

The Word was God, and he still is. Jesus is your Savior and your Lord. You don’t have to understand his triune greatness to worship him as God.

Knowing God is the beginning of wisdom. Knowing Jesus is knowing God.