TODAY'S BIBLE TWEET
BIBLE TEXT: “And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.” (Luke 1:35)
BIBLE TWEET: Though impossible with men, the miracle of the Incarnation, which was conceived of the Spirit in the womb of a virgin, was possible with God, with whom all things are possible.
BIBLE TAKEAWAY: The Incarnation is to me the most astonishing truth in all of Scripture. The Creator we read about at the beginning of the Old Testament is the baby that we read about at the beginning of the New Testament. At the heart of the Gospel is this astounding truth: God became a man in the man Christ Jesus. Although I readily admit the difficulty of getting one’s head around this incredible doctrine, I spurn the world’s reproach of Christians for embracing it. After all, what right does this world have to poke fun at my belief in the Incarnation—that God became a man—when it has bought into the cockamamie theory of evolution—that a monkey became a man. What we Christians believe is truly amazing, but what the world believes is certainly absurd.
Today, It is still possible with God for His Son to be miraculously formed in others (Galatians 4:19). Like Mary, we too may be receptacles of the divine Seed (1 John 3:9). Now, this is not to say that we too can be overshadowed by the Holy Spirit and impregnated with the divine Seed so that Christ can be born into the world. It is to say, however, that through faith in Christ we can be born of the Spirit, indwelt by the Spirit and empowered by the Spirit to take Christ to the world.