He lowered and humbled Himself by becoming incarnate as a helpless, vulnerable little baby.
At age 33, after three years of teaching, healing, exorcisms, and astonishing miracles, He willingly allowed Himself to be arrested, tortured, publicly humiliated, then nailed to a cross and left to die. All for us.
This is a reminder of who the Second Person of the Triune Godhead really is, from the most powerful passage in the Holy Scripture.
John 1:1-14, 18
In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God.
All things came to be through him,
and without him nothing came to be.
What came to be through him was life,
and this life was the light of the human race;
the light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness has not overcome it.
The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.
He was in the world,
and the world came to be through him,
but the world did not know him.
He came to what was his own,
but his own people did not accept him.
But to those who did accept him
he gave power to become children of God,
to those who believe in his name,
who were born not by natural generation
nor by human choice nor by a man’s decision
but of God.
And the Word became flesh
and made his dwelling among us,
and we saw his glory,
the glory as of the Father’s only Son,
full of grace and truth.
No one has ever seen God.
The only Son, God, who is at the Father’s side,
has revealed him.
↑Please click image above to enlarge, You really must!↑
The above breathtaking image of outstretched “wings,” taken by the Hubble space telescope, is of a star-forming region 2,000 light-years from us, in a relatively isolated part of the Milky Way galaxy. Called Sharpless 2-106, Sh2-106 or S106 for short, the nebula measures several light-years in length. More info here.
Here are two more images of Star-Forming Region 106 (click images to enlarge!):
The Greatest Commandment of all is to love God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole mind, and with all your strength.
May the peace and joy and love of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you!
~Eowyn