“The Word became flesh,” John 1:14 says, “and made His dwelling among us.” Theologians have said that this is a way of saying that Christ pitched his tent among us because the word used for made his dwelling is “tabernacled” or “tented”. God uses the metaphor of a tent to describe the body Jesus came to indwell because our bodies are like tents that house our spirits while we are here on earth. They are temporary dwellings which we will cast off when we leave this earth.
The single most amazing concept of Christianity in my mind is that;
The eternal God who created all things
Created people as the crowning glory of his creation
And He loved them so much
That He became one of them
To redeem them from sin and damnation
To eternal life in His own family.
To do that, the eternal God, who is Spirit,
Took on human flesh---a body.
He became incarnate or en-fleshed
Because it would take a real human death by the Son of God
To pay for the sins of humanity.
Ideas come and go in popularity like fashions. One idea that is fashionable in Christianity right now, that I reject, is the idea that we Christians put too much emphasis on Christmas because we have just caved into the commercialization of it.
That is wrong. The birth of Christ is presented in the Bible as one of the top turning points of history. It ranks right up there with creation, the cross, the resurrection, and the Second Coming because it was God becoming one of us to save us all.
When we celebrate the birth of Christ, we are celebrating God’s work of redemption which is the very heart of His purpose for the course of time. We are celebrating the very meaning of our lives.
