Passage
He was in the beginning with God.
John 1:2 (LSB)
Nearby Context
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:2 He was in the beginning with God.
John 1:3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.
John 1:4 In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.
Study Lenses
The verse centers on "beginning". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "beginning" and "the identity of Jesus", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The nearby context moves from verse 1's "In the beginning was the Word and..." into verse 3's "All things came into being through Him...", so "beginning" and "the identity of Jesus" belong inside that flow. In John context, the local focus is the identity of Jesus, new birth, eternal life, and belief and unbelief.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "beginning" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.