Incarnation Celebration

On December 20th, all day in Baltimore, we had an "Incarnation Celebration" in our services. The Holy Spirit was bearing witness to us about the marvel of the Incarnation.

Evening service included a short skit with Elisabeth and Mary in dialogue. We spoke about the divine among us. In the morning, we reflected on the verse "the less is blessed of the better" (Hebrews 7:7). Though we know life is full of the better being used to bless the least, sometimes we fail to grasp the best example of all - the Incarnation. God knows we are so lost we hardly grasp the simple truth - we are in trouble. Not only is Satan the god of this world, but our sin has blinded us and then killed us. The law is continually powerless in changing things substantially. Add to that our fourth, vast, profound problem - the grave.

Do we realize the radical shift, the ultimate move by God on our behalf? No, we can hardly understand it. It is the ultimate marvel.

Martin Luther stated simply with a thought-provoking analogy, "Even so has our Lord God dealt with the devil; God has cast into the world His only Son as the hook and upon the hook has put Christ's humanity as the worm. Then comes the devil and snaps at the (man) Christ, and devours Him, and therewith he bites the iron hook that is the godhead of Christ, which chokes him. And all his power thereby is thrown to the ground. This is called sapientia divina, divine wisdom" 

The less - our world, corrupt and contaminated by us - has been served by the best. The unsurpassable perfection is the result. We now by the Holy Spirit sense the celebration, as the shepherds did with the angels. It is incredible!