Tender mercy

“And so the Living Expression became a man and lived among us! We gazed upon his glory, the glory of the One and Only who came from the Father overflowing with tender mercy and truth!”John‬ ‭1‬:‭14‬ ‭TPT‬‬

The Passion Translation translates Logos as Living expression. In the footnotes it explains this:

‘Logos is more accurately understood as a self-revealing form of a message. Jesus Christ is the eternal message, the creative word, and the living expression of God made visible. He is the divine self-expression of all God is, reveals, contains and reveals in incarnate flesh.’

John wrote, ‘we gazed upon His glory’. John fully appreciated that He has Jesus, the Son of God as a friend. When he says he ‘gazed upon His glory’, he looked at God living among men and was totally awed by the experience. He saw the overflow of tender mercy and truth. To live with this would have blown away all he ever knew about God. He had only known the God of the Old Testament, the judge and dispenser of justice.

When we come to Jesus we have an about face from living according to rules we have believed are enough, rules given by a church denomination, and personal failures to a loving God, who says: ‘I have paid for your redemption, you are free from the bondage of sin, you are welcome into heaven just because you have faith in Me and the work I did for you on the cross’.

His mercy and truth are enough! Amen!