Knowing God, p. 59 “the taking of manhood by the Son is set before us in a way which shows us how we should ever view it – not simply as a marvel of nature, but rather as a wonder of grace.”
“A wonder of grace.” How is it that the God of this universe would choose to dwell among us? He made himself nothing. He took the very nature of a servant. He was made in human likeness. Human likeness. He’s GOD! It is marvelous in its nature, “the union of the Godhead and manhood in the person of Jesus,” yet how wondrously gracious that He “emptied himself” (p. 53). God became like the very sinners He desired to save (minus the sin nature) in the person of Jesus Christ. “Veiled in flesh the Godhead see; hail the incarnate Deity, Pleased as Man with man to dwell, Jesus, our Immanuel,” a line from a familiar Christmas song that is full of theology, and speaks of the “wonder of grace.” Jesus was literally “God with us.” That “the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us” is a wonder of grace (Jn. 1:14). God did not have to save sinners, but it was his plan to save some, and was made possible only through his Son becoming man, dying and rising again. The wondrous grace of God choosing to dwell among us in the person of Jesus Christ becomes all the more powerful as we understand all which God is.
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