What If Reality Is Not Silent?

John’s Gospel opens with an audacious claim about reality:

“In the beginning was the Word…”

Before your degree, your ambitions, before your life began, even before history as we know it…there was meaning. Not chaos. Not a cosmic accident. Not dark silence.

“The Word” is John’s way of saying: the universe is not random noise. There is coherence. Intention. Rationality. It can be understood.

Then John dials it up:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

Meaning isn’t merely an idea.
It’s personal.
Before anything existed, personal reality existed.

In our culture, we live as though meaning is something we invent. We consider ourselves as self-made: career, relationships, identity. We “make something of ourselves.”

But invented meaning is fragile. It shifts. And it cracks under pressure.

John suggests something different: Meaning isn’t something we construct first. It’s something we encounter. It precedes us.

And this raises a shocking and disarming possibility:

What if purpose isn’t something you have to build from scratch…but something you can discover?

What if behind everything, is not emptiness, but a voice?

Curious?

This semester we’re reading John’s Gospel together in small Bible groups at RMIT.
No background needed and there’s no pressure.
Just honest questions, a great way to make real friendships and discover Jesus.

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