Let Your Light Shine Before Others
The prologue to the Gospel of John proclaims In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race; the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it (John 1:1–5) The "Word" is a translation of the Greek word logos , the concept that the divine reason permeates all reality, giving it order, form, and meaning. 1 Philo, a first-century Jewish philosopher and theologian, "taught that the logos was the intermediary between God and the cosmos, being both the agent of creation and the agent through which the human mind can apprehend and comprehend God....the logos was both immanent in the world and at the same time the transcendent divine mind." 2 . Christianity understands the "Word" to be the second perso...