advent

the advent season starts tomorrow. The time when we as a church remember the first time that Jesus came to earth and look forward to the 2nd advent when we will get to see Him put all things under His feet.
I was thinking about this today- thinking about how the fact that Jesus became flesh changed everything- I mean, even the Godhead "changed" in some way, because when Jesus became human He stayed human- forever. And, I was thinking about how incredible it was that God was generous enough to create us, and then to take our form........
What a concept! That when God was forming Adam out of dirt, They knew that one day Jesus would take this very form- the form of dirt made alive, human.
What worth humanity now has! It is like when you are a little kid and everyone is making fun of you for having green socks on and then the teacher- the coolest teacher ever, that everyone loves- comes in with green socks! And then, having green socks changes to "coolest ever" - yep, it is like that times 1 million. God decided to be human. He said that humanity has incredible worth- made in His image and now the second person of the Trinity became man FOREVER! This doesn't mean that humanity has worth in and of itself- oh, no. It means that God has given humanity worth. That God has shown how incredible He considers human life- how we should value human life.
And it is just amazing that God would do this so we could see how generous He is, how gracious, how loving.....it just keeps coming and coming and coming and coming and coming and coming!