Reflections on God Becoming Man in Christian Story
Reflect on the profound journey of God becoming man as described in the Christian story, drawing parallels to a diver's descent into the depths and resurfacing with newfound color and light. Explore the concept of descent to ascend and the transformative power it holds for the world.
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Jesus Is Baptized With Us Matthew 3:1-17
Luke 2:20 The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.
Matt. 2:2 And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.
Matthew 3:1-2 In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.
Luke 3:1-2b 1 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene 2 during the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, . . .
Psalm 42:1-3 1 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, Where is your God?
. . . God became man. . . In the Christian story God descends to reascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity; down further still, . . . But He goes down to come up again and bring the whole ruined world up with Him. (C. S. Lewis, Miracles in The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics, p. 270, 272)
. . . think of a diver, first reducing himself to nakedness, then glancing in mid-air, then gone with a splash, vanished, rushing down through green and warm water into black and cold water, down through increasing pressure into the death-like region of ooze and slime and old decay; then up again, back to colour and light, his lungs almost bursting, till suddenly he breaks surface again, holding in his hand the dripping, precious thing that he went down to recover. He and it are both coloured now that they have come up into the light: down below, where it lay colourless in the dark, he lost his colour too. (C. S. Lewis, Miracles, p. 272)
Mark 10:38 Can you drink the cup of suffering that I must drink? Can you be baptized in the way I must be baptized?
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 9 Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: 10 If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. 11 Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? 12 Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
