Today's Journal
PRACTICE RESURRECTION
The incarnation is the beginning of history’s greatest event: God in Jesus Christ becoming a human being. How did that happen? Beats me. The scriptures say that Mary, a virgin, was told by Gabriel an angel (messenger) sent by God that,“The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore, the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. For nothing will be impossible with God” (Luke 1:35-37). There, now that explains that.
The word incarnation means “the act of being made flesh.” “The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us” (John 1:14). This eventually led to the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The other great event in history is to have this same Jesus that became flesh (human) and lived with us; to give us the Holy Spirit of God so we might live as spiritual children of the Father. The Trinity comes into us by us being “born from above” by this same Holy Spirit. “No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit” (1 Corinthians 12:3). We are also in the flesh, but we are now “spiritual children” of the Father. By the death, burial and resurrection of Christ we too overcome sin, death and the devil.
We need to daily practice resurrection.
“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live. Everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” Jesus