The gospel of John is a powerful book. As Scripture, holy and inspired, it is a book that goes to the roots of our relationship with Christ. For many believers, this book introduced them to Christ. It is a short book as measured by some, but one that brings an intimacy that few other parts of Scripture can come close to. It is a book filled with doctrine and emotion, facts and spiritual wonderment. Most of all John is a book that cannot be ignored.The message we hear from the outset is that the beginning is an important part of our foundation of knowledge. In these first few verses we are reminded that, “Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made.” Yes, these are verses that we have heard many times; too many for some in that we have let the impact of them pass us by. Let’s take a closer look and remind ourselves what impact these verses have on life itself.Through Him: This means Jesus was THE CREATOR! (See verse 1 also.):This means everything was created by Jesus.In Him was Life:We are DEAD without Jesus.As we live our life each day it is very easy to think we are in control and that we have something to do with eternity. We do have something to do with eternity: we have a Creator who desires to live it for, through, and in us. We need to be reminded that WE are dead and HE is alive. He is our life and our light. We have to give up this notion that we have the ability to “help” God perform His will, and instead we must remind ourselves that He has created us as the vessels chosen to do His will.