Merry Christmas; The Incarnation

   Merry Christmas everyone! This is indeed the Christmas Season, beginning at sundown on 24 December and ending at sundown on 5 January. It’s a time of “Holly Jolly Christmas“, eggnog, and gift giving too. But it is also the time of The Incarnation. In fact, this IS the reason for the season, the “invasion” by God as a man, into our world.

So what and why is it important? Well, in his excellent and very scholarly article, “The Importance of the Incarnation”, Bob Deffinbaugh , Th.M., writes:

In the past, God had revealed Himself through His works (as recorded in the Scriptures), His world (Psalm 19:1-6), and His word (Ps. 19:7-14). In the coming of Christ, God was revealed in the person of Jesus Christ:

• God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power (Heb. 1:1-3a).

• For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him (John 1:17-18).

• In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness; and the darkness did not comprehend it . . . . There was a true light which, coming into the world, enlightens every man. He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him (John 1:4-5, 9-10).

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The Incarnation is the real reason for this Christmas Season. So with your holiday mocha-cappucino in one hand and Christmas cookie in the other, I invite you to read more of Mr. Deffinbaugh’s full article at Bible.Org by clicking to it at this link HERE.

(stained glass photo courtesy of St. Hilary’s Episcopal Church)