Thursday, December 25, 2014

Et Verbum Caro Factum Est



If you ever find yourself wondering how much God loves us, try to recall the last time you didn't do something because you thought it was beneath you, or that you might get yourself dirty, or that it might cause you some kind of other discomfort.

God didn't let any of that stop him. We could decide to lower ourselves to become cockroaches, and it wouldn't even begin to approach the infinite condescension that we find in the Incarnation.

Yet despite our wretchedness, we find it almost impossible to humble ourselves for anything. You think it would be easy considering how often we screw things up. God, though, never screws things up but chooses to undergo a humiliation beyond all others to be one of us.

The reality of this should both chill us sbd warm our hearts at the same time.

Merry Christmas to you all.
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2 comments:

  1. PhilipJanuary 15, 2015 at 3:47 PM

    I always thought that God lowered himself most by dying on the cross, not by becoming man.

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  2. ThrowbackJanuary 17, 2015 at 10:44 AM

    Lowered himself most? Sure. But the very act of taking on a nature that was subject to any limitation, death especially, was one of supreme humility.

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