Incarnation

Each year at Christmas I try to focus on a different aspect of this great story of Jesus Birth.  This year I have been thinking and pondering the issue of the incarnation.  The idea that God could become man.  Not only did God become man but he became a babe in a manger.  Wow!  This is a concept that I can not even begin to wrap my mind around. 

I have been pondering the scripture in John 1:1,14. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God….. The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”

Also consider Luke 2:6-7  “While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.”

Imagine this the God who created everything was born to the woman he created and laid in a manger that was made from trees he created.  God loves us so much that he chose to come and dwell among us.  Yet he did not chose to come as a king or be born in a palace, but to a lowly couple in a place that you and I would never have to be born in. 

 

Let us worship together the One who came to us from the Father full of grace and truth!

Religion Vs. Revolution

I have been reading this great book called The Jesus of Suburbia and it has been awesome.  There is a lot of false teaching out there about who Jesus is and what he has called us to do.  Has Jesus called to a life of comfort, money and fame?  Or has Jesus called to suffer for his name sake?  There has been much teaching in recent years on the former that if you are living as Jesus has called us your life will be great and you will have plenty of money.

There is another teaching out there that says that Christianity is about religion.  It is about keeping some rules and making sure all the good we do out weighs the bad so we make Jesus happy.  But is this what Christ has called us to a religion?  I think not in fact when he walked this earth he condemned religion.  The biggest issue he had was with the religous leaders of his day.  He did not just have issues with them but he condemned them calling them hypocrites.  Jesus was not the religous guy that we may think he was but rather he was a revolutionary who came to seek and save the lost.  Jesus brought about a revolution that was carried on through his church and through which we are called to continue!  So are you religous or part of a revolution?