The Incarnation of Christ

I had a slight epiphany about the incarnation of Christ last night at Barnes and Nobles of all places! My friend Chris and I were discussing varies topics and started on the subject of grace. I was thumbing through this book titled, “What So Amazing About Grace.” I was shocked on some of the stuff that was said in this book. I began to share what the book was saying to Chris then he began to discuss about the Incarnation which I’m very familiar with as should all believers.

What took placed is hard to explain, what happened to my spirit is difficult. Those who know me would know that I know this subject of the Incarnation well. What I saw, the very small glimpse that I had, put me in silence for a minute. That God humbled Himself and became human and dwelt, lived among sinners. He is holy, the Most Holy, we are unholy. We are ungodly, depraved, even God-haters and God-rejecters. There is no sin in Him, no darkness, no thought of wickedness. He is to be worshiped, honored and thanked, but mankind commits blasphemy, daily.

God who is separate from sinners came in the likeness of sinful flesh, human flesh. Like a king leaving his throne and becoming a slave to his own people. God displayed His grace and humbled Himself just to live inside my depraved, ungraceful heart. This is the only King who conquered men through love not fear. I was stuck to see how much more I lack grace. God made the Incarnation real to me! Not just an intellectional understanding, but I saw it in the core of my spirit. The Incarnation should humble every person on this God-hating (especially christians) world when they hear how He loved us and come down to our planet incarnated and bidding us to repent and then crucified.

Do you understand His Majesty?

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Philippians 2:5