No Christmas for John

Friday June 17th: Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. For John, Jesus is also the God of creation and before. For John, Jesus is the light that counters the darkness of this world. No swaddling clothes, no wise men, no camels or sheep or manger or virgin birth, just the God who always was and always will be. Jesus is that God on earth for us, the full revelation of what God wants us to know about God. For John, the birth was unimportant and perhaps even in the way of the message. It worked for John, but it makes for lousy Sunday School Christmas pageants.