The incarnation means God chose weakness, poverty, the margins, being a refugee, false charges, & state inflicted violence. He chose what we’d flee because we’d chosen to avoid him. He did this for love, a sacrificial love that reaches into our sorrow to take us to his splendor.
The incarnation means that there is no aspect of our humanity which is outside the scope of redeeming mercy. There is no dimension of the human person not stained by sin but neither is there any place left unhealed by his embrace. Reconciliation & Union with God are ours by faith
The incarnation means the infinite has entered the finite to restore & transform it from the inside out, to start small & hidden, weak & vulnerable, but rise to make all things new after subverting every claim we make to be our own gods, saving ourselves.
The incarnation means that the walls of the cosmos are porous, that we are not in a closed system from which all simply emerges. No, there was one who did not emerge but entered. He permanently joined our world to his in order to bring it to glory.
The Creator of all things is born. The Life of the world comes to die. The Light pierced the night. Joy to the world! The Lord has come. Let earth receive her King. Let every heart prepare him room, and heaven and nature sing!
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