The heart of the Christian faith is that God became human. In Jesus we have a profound mystery: a person fully human and a person fully divine. We can understand the fully human part because we experience that every moment of consciousness. To live for us is to be human.
However, even here, the truth is we each fail to be fully all that humanity offers. We fail to love fully, forgive fully, rejoice fully, mourn fully. Jesus also was a unique person in that he was also the Son of God, existing before creation and perfectly in union with God, his father. This is a mystery we will always find difficult to appreciate.
In Jesus, God has bent low to earth and made himself fully known to his people. Also in Jesus, humanity has reached to God in righteousness and perfect obedience as a life well lived. We are invited into the centre of this mystery to receive God’s grace and be elevated to people fully pleasing to our Father. ‘The glory of God is a human fully alive’.
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