The Incarnation
John 12-14
“’Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.’ …’Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in the Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.’”
John 14:10, 19, 20
The incarnation, which we celebrate as God himself coming as a child to show us the way to salvation, is now repeated every time someone invites Christ, through the Spirit, to live in them. Just as the Father indwelt Jesus and spoke and worked through him, so also the Lord Jesus now desires to indwell each of us and speak and work in us and through us. We refer to this reality as life in the Spirit. We who have given our lives to Christ experience Christ living through us by his Spirit.
Will we stop this morning and offer our bodies again to the Lord as his temple?
Will we quiet our souls and listen to his voice?
It’s in receiving his love that we have love to give to those around us. The incarnation has changed everything!
“Thank you, Father, for sending your Son and your Spirit, for your glory.”