The Incarnation in Your Life Today
From Tim Nichols:
Gregory the Theologian said, “What is not assumed cannot be healed,” and this is true. For exactly that reason, Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Triune God, assumed full humanity at His incarnation. In Jesus, we have a spectacular demonstration that man, the image of God, is an accurate image, and can partake in the divine nature. Nothing human is foreign to Him; there is no part of you that you can point to and say, “Jesus didn’t have to deal with this.”
The Incarnation strips us of our excuses, but in exchange it gives us hope, hope that we can be holy as He is holy. God designed every part of you to partake of the divine nature. God in Christ redeemed every part of you in order to cause you to fulfill God’s design. In the coming week, you will face the temptation to keep parts of yourself, or parts of your life, to yourself, and to keep the divine nature away from them. The charge I leave you with is simple: Don’t give in to that temptation. Hand that area to Christ, so that you may say with Paul, “I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.”
