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| "The Child Jesus" - Alexandre Bida |
(We'll still make it reading through the Bible this year, as the schedule we're following has one week of grace built into it!)
TODAY'S SPECIAL: Psalm 85:1-13
TO CHEW ON: "Mercy and truth have met together,
Righteousness and peace have kissed." Psalm 85:10
This meeting of mercy and truth, righteousness and peace playing out in the incarnation has fascinated philosophers and theologians ever since there have been such people. They have tried to understand how it works, argued over its fine points, and parted ways over differences of belief. It is really the point of the whole Bible—the Gospel, good news. I love how Wayne Grudem sums it up at the end of the chapter "The Person of Christ" in his Systematic Theology:
"It (the incarnation) is by far the most amazing miracle of the entire Bible—far more amazing than the resurrection and more amazing even than the creation of the universe. The fact that the infinite, omnipotent, eternal Son of God could become man and join himself to a human nature forever, so that infinite God became one person with finite man, will remain for eternity the most profound miracle and the most profound mystery in all the universe" - p. 563.
PRAYER: Dear God, thank You for this mystery and miracle and what it means for me: I have Your mercy, I have peace with You. Thank You!
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