He came in flesh to live with us, this God of restoration
and will do the most unlikely things to woo us back and to reveal His vast and strong
love.
This morning as I was thinking about this amazing series of
events unfolding, it occurred to me for the first time that at the very moment when
He was born a tiny picture of His greater coming work was happening in
miniature. Mary, being a virgin, would
have had her hymen still intact until that moment of Jesus’s birth. It was a thin veil of skin broken and a
symbol of the intimacy that had now begun for us all by His work. This incarnation was a whole new way of God
coming to meet us, to live with us, to have the barrier between us
removed. That tiny piece of flesh in
Mary was torn, some blood spilling out at this arrival of a new king and a new kingdom. This young woman who had trusted His greater
plan, experienced the first breaking barrier as He entered the world.
And so it can be for each of us as we align our wills to
yield to His, that more and more barriers are broken because His death for us
tore the big barrier forever. Through
this freedom He won for us, we are now enabled to win the little victories that
we are here to bring to earth.
Photograph from morguefile.com by diannehope
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