The Birth of Majesty

The Holy One calls me this morning.  Wrestles abound and thoughts of His Majestic Being take me out of the  mental conflict of worldly thoughts.

With the celebration of the Birth of our Savior right around the corner, I always have to stop the spin into the worldly push for gifts, and tinsel, and distractions off the point of origin which is the Babe in the Manger.  The day when Majesty zipped Himself into humanity and took on flesh, so that our human eyes might see what our human brains cannot begin to comprehend.

John 1:1 says, "The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us."  It is a huge mistake on our part to minimize what went on over 2,000 years ago in the human arena of life and the Divine arena of Eternity.  The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us.

A flash back to Genesis comes to my mind, when Adam and Eve were in fellowship with the Creator.
Gen 3:8, "Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord as He was walking in the cool of the day".  Due to their rebellion and sinful disobedience, scripture says, "and they hid themselves from the Lord God among the trees."  From there, they experienced the ultimate separation from the "Source" of all that exists.  They experienced separation from the "Word" which is the source of all; all reason, all expression, the rational principle that forms and governs all things.  Remember that in creation, God "said" and it was so.

Separation from the "Word" and we call Him, God, is ultimate death, beyond any human ability to describe and beyond  the human concept of the breakdown and termination of the physical body.   It is a death so profound that, I believe, our human relational minds and souls cannot even fathom that degree of separation until after it has occurred.

BUT GOD
......GAVE......HIS.......SON.......THAT.....WHOEVER.....BELIEVES.....IN......HIM......SHALL.....NOT.....PERISH.....BUT.....HAVE......ETERNAL.....LIFE...........John 3:16

because of the fall, man was already condemned, but then the Word says,

FOR.....GOD.....DID.....NOT.....SEND.....HIS.....SON.....INTO.....THE....WORLD.....TO.....CONDEMN.....THE.....WORLD.....BUT.....TO.....SAVE.....IT.....John 3:17

Majesty zipped Himself into humanity
The Word became flesh
God came and dwelt among us

But Why?

To restore man to his original  relationship with the Creator.  To redeem and reconcile and re-set man back into fellowship with the Source of All,  from which man was separated in the fall.

The entirety of the Old Testament was written to men for their eyes to look forward to the Birth of the Messiah Redeemer.  The entirety of the New testament was written to men for their eyes to look back to the Birth of the Messiah Redeemer.  For on that day, God fulfilled His promise to send a Savior into the world, and since man, despite all his most heroic efforts cannot be found adequate to save anyone, God came into this world Himself.

Luke 1:35 tells of the Divine intervention of Holiness into our world.  Mary, the chosen vessel for the Divine Birth was naturally confused.  When the Divinely supernatural collides with the principles that govern the natural, questions and wrestles do come.  Mary was no exception.  Here she is a young virgin recently betrothed, yet not married, together with the ancient writing that spoke of a virgin being with child.  Isaiah 7:14.  "Therefore, the Lord Himself will give you a sign: the virgin will be with child and will give brith to a son and will call Him Immanuel, "God with us".

Our human minds seem to be able to readily accept things in the future, until the day it becomes our reality, and defies our concept in the "natural".

Mary questioned, the angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.  So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.  And Mary's answer was priceless, "I am the Lord's servant, may it be to me as you have said."

Another year in the history of man, brings us to the manger yet again.  The Truth of our Savior will be presented along with the endless temptations to bypass the stable and head to the mall.  May we allow our hearts and our heads to bow in reverance and awe before the Holy One who chose a manger over a palace to begin His walk among us.

Oh and just so we don't get too comfortable with His "humanity", let us never forget that He returned to His place of Glory after He fulfilled the Holy requirement for the redemption of our souls.

Rev 1:13-17, "And among the lampstands was someone, "like a son of man", dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest.  His head and hair were white like wool as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters.  In his right hand he held seven stars and  out of his mouth came a sharp double edged sword.  His face was like the sun shining in all of it's brillance. When I saw Him I fell at his feet as though dead."

This is the true identity of the One who zipped Himself into humanity 2,000 years ago in a manger.

May the awe of who He is flood our hearts and minds until we see Him face to face.

The Spirit is calling.  Can you hear Him?