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There are 73 words in these four verses but the more often I read this selection the more frequently I hear only one word. It's the first really big word I learned. I knew it when I was seven or eight because I'd heard it for years as I sat in my home church sanctuary every Sunday God sent. I not only knew the word; I understood what it meant.
Incarnation.
What Flannery O'Conner called "an infusion of divine life into materiality." What Dorothy Sayers defined as "God's autobiography written in the language of real flesh and blood." Terry Fullum says Jesus "was a man with one foot planted in time -- for God truly intersected history with His incarnation -- but with the other foot in eternity." Ben Johnson writes, "In Christ, God became approachable, vulnerable, visible, touchable." What was remote and removed became tangible and touchable. Or as a little girl defined incarnation to her Sunday School teacher, "God with skin on."
-- Barnhart
Incarnation.
What Flannery O'Conner called "an infusion of divine life into materiality." What Dorothy Sayers defined as "God's autobiography written in the language of real flesh and blood." Terry Fullum says Jesus "was a man with one foot planted in time -- for God truly intersected history with His incarnation -- but with the other foot in eternity." Ben Johnson writes, "In Christ, God became approachable, vulnerable, visible, touchable." What was remote and removed became tangible and touchable. Or as a little girl defined incarnation to her Sunday School teacher, "God with skin on."
-- Barnhart
