How wonderful that in this midst of fall....before Thanksgiving and Advent and before Christmas.....we are given the gift of the story of Incarnation.
Incarnation. The story when God placed his only Son---Divinity itself---smack dab in the messiness of humanity. In a lowly manger.
Humans often want to believe we should only put God and praise God in clean places. In holy places. Places where the ritual is just right; the gold and silver are gleaming; the candles are properly lit, and everyone says the right thing at the right time.
But, when God is in control of how the Body of Christ is received in the world, God placed divinity in a manger amongst ordinary people----without gold, without candles, without ritual----but still very holy nonetheless. What made it so holy? God dwells among us. Immanuel. Heaven on earth.
No comments:
Post a Comment