The Incarnation

;...and the Word became flesh." John 1:14


Less than two weeks until Christmas.
When we were children it pained us that Christmas came so slow. Now that we are adults, it surprises us that it comes so fast.
The Incarnation is a permanent thing.
God Became Man.
When Jesus was born on earth He never ceased to be God. When He ascended into heaven He never ceased to be Man.
It is a Man (God too, of course) who intercedes for us at the Father's right hand.

"For there is one God and one Mediator between God and man, the MAN, Christ Jesus..." (I Timothy 2:5).

Strong comfort that. He was touched by our infirmities. He KNOWS. Not by some remote intellectual knowing but by the knowledge of shared experience. He is Immanuel, God with us. He knows what it is like to live in a fallen place (with 'mosquitoes, tapeworms and rabies' in the words of Vern Poythress' apt summary). He knows us not as an astronomer knows a planet by peering through a telescope. He knows us as a Son knows a family by being conceived in a human womb and sleeping in a crowded room.

He came to set His people free ---far as the curse is found. And the curse is found everywhere.

There is no patch under the sun uncontaminated by the curse of sin. He provides the antidote by swallowing the poison Himself. He tasted death for every man. He was born with us that He might die for us.
And so He did.
O come let us adore Him.
Born the King of Angels.