Day 3: Jesus Our Emmanuel
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life (1John 1:1).
God of holy might and majesty, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see (1Timothy 6:16), You traversed the insurmountable distance between God and man by sending us Your Son:
No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made Him known (John 1:18).
We hear the wonder in the words of the apostle John— wonder and amazement— that human ears heard, human eyes saw, human hands touched God— God, the Word of Life who was in the beginning with God, who was God (John 1:1).
Father, in this blessed season as we remember once again Your incredible assumption of full humanity, may we be filled with that same wonder and amazement. Help us to grasp the magnitude of Your existence as Solomon did when he prayed:
“But will God really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain You. How much less this temple I have built!” (1 Kings 8:27).
Let not the dull haze of familiarity rob us of the wonder of the God who opened His divine person to interaction with mere mortals— God who was pleased with us in flesh to dwell, Jesus our Emmanuel (Wesley, Charles, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, 1767).
He so loved us that, for our sake,
He was made man in time,
although through Him all times were made.
He was made man, who made man.
He was created of a mother whom He created.
He was carried by hands that He formed.
He cried in the manger in wordless infancy, He the Word,
without whom all human eloquence is mute.
~ Augustine of Hippo
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