The Beginning
“That which was from the beginning…” – 1 John 1.1
Okay, so John is talking about something big here. Really big.
Let me put it this way. I’ve seen some pretty old stuff in my life. My great-grandmom lived to be a hundred something (eight, I think). I’ve seen the place where the dudes that started this country two hundred years ago sat when they wrote the Constitution. For being almost four hundred or so years old, the Taj Mahal still looks pretty good, even on a cloudy day. And I bet that moon rock I reached over the bar to touch as a little kid at the Smithsonian is pretty old too. But the age of all of those things are nothing when compared with what John is talking about here. Evidently, he is talking about the oldest thing ever, hence his word choice: That which was from the beginning. And the That, John makes clear later on, is a Person and That Person is from the Beginning. Not just any beginning, but The Beginning…. So John is essentially starting his letter off by saying, “Dudes, pay attention because I’m talking about something mad important. It’s about the Person who is from the beginning, who is the Beginning. This is the one from whom all things come. Pay attention because your minds are about to get blown-up.”
I’d say that’s pretty big.
