Incarnation

(An excerpt from Chapter 12 of "About the Voice of God")

The cross and resurrection of Christ brought redemption, but that was the crescendo, the final blow. The reconciliation really began the moment Mary became pregnant. Just as Jesus did not become leprous when He touched the leper, He would not become contaminated by humanity. His glory would transform us, minute by minute, breath by breath, every moment He lived on this earth. He entered into our wounded human existence, and while wearing our humanity, He steadfastly refused to be what we had become. Inside of our skin, carrying our essence, He beat His way forward, blow by blow. He entered into fallen human existence and refused to be "fallen" in it. Through 33 years of blood, sweat, and tears, through crucifixion and in the power of the Holy Spirit, He carved out the path of redemption. That is the atoning work of Jesus Christ! The Word made flesh.

He lived in perfect oneness with the Father as a human, carrying Mary’s DNA in His bones, breaking every barrier, tearing down every wall, conquering every shadow. He opened the way for us to live in oneness with our Creator while wearing our skin. The incarnation was the starting point of the full redemption of our identity as humans. It’s the most scandalous transformation of all; holiness incarnating the broken, and transforming us into His image.

It’s the beginning of humanity being clothed with the Creator Himself. Human history has never been the same! Light will forever shine out of the darkness.

Jesus is the Word of God. He is where heaven and earth have collided, and then colluded. His existence will forever speak the loudest word. As we seek to commune with God, to listen for God in all the ways He speaks, we must first and always be listening to the life and existence of Christ. The incarnation of Christ turns the whole world into a burning bush. Everything within me and everything around me can point to this Word if I have eyes to see and ears to hear.