minority opinion

Week 41  John 1

John started his gospel talking about the mysterious The Word. He said that life itself was in him. He also said that this life gives light to everyone. So The Word was the Possessor of Original Life (which in itself is pretty important) but in the next couple of verses John seems more interested in The Life being The Light.
The reason that John is making that point now is that The Word (The Life / The Light): the one who is the true light, who gives light to everyone, was going to come into the world. Up to now he’d been outside the world. But now he was going to arrive.
I’m thinking so-far-so-good but John wasn’t thinking so-far-so-good because he said: but although the world was made through him, the world didn’t recognize him when he came. Even in his own land and among his own people, he was not accepted. John didn’t exactly mean that not a single person in the whole world accepted The Light because he said that: to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. But it looks like believing in The Word and accepting The Word was going to be a minority opinion. Some did believe. But most didn’t. Which seems strange. If someone told me I could get transformed into a Child of God I think I’d jump at the chance. But lots of people obviously didn’t.

Note: quotes from John 1:4 9 10-11 12 (NLT)