Pitching His Tent

Pitching His Tent

Bible: John 1:1-14

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The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us (V.14).

When my brother wasn’t well enough to go camping, my dad brought the camping trip to him. They pitched a tent behind our house, underneath the stars. They made their beds for the night on the bumpy ground of our back garden, so we could all ‘go’ camping together.

At the start of his gospel eyewitness account, John describes how Jesus came to earth and ‘pitched His tent’ among us: “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (JOHN 1:14). The Greek word here for dwelling means to pitch a tent, and it’s the same word used elsewhere in the New Testament for the tent—the tabernacle—where God lived with the Israelites in the Old Testament (ACTS 7:44). As God camped out with the Israelites, so too has Jesus set up His tent to be with His people.

When you have a few moments, read through the opening verses of John’s gospel slowly and let the amazing truths sink in about the Word made man, Jesus who came to earth to live among us. He who “was with God in the beginning” (V.2) has come to be our “life” and “the light of all mankind” (V.4).

What does it mean for you that Jesus ‘pitches His tent’ on earth? How might you share Him today?

JESUS IS THE WORD WHO LIVES AMONG US.

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