Daily Java: Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good. His love endures forever. Give thanks to the God of heaven. His love endures forever. (Psalm 136:1,26)
Christmas is here. This is the season in which we look at the visible love of God: Jesus himself.
God’s love was such that he sent to us an instrument of reconciliation in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. The perfection of Jesus brings us into the presence of God.
That is the problem with being God and with being sinful human beings. God is perfect and can have no part with sin. No sin can touch him nor come into his presence. So how in the world can we?
As sinful beings, we cannot approach God. He is so holy and we are not. For us to try to come to him would mean destruction for us. It would be like plugging our toasters into the high voltage lines. There is no mediating influence between us and his power.
So Jesus came. He was of God, born by the power of the Holy Spirit with Mary, an ordinary flawed human being. Even though he was human, as we are, yet he was still divine as was his Father, God. And he lived a life that was free of sin. 1 Peter 2:22, in quoting a Messianic prophecy from Isaiah 53, said, He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.
Although he was as human as the next man, he did not sin. So of all the people who ever lived, he alone had the ability to approach the presence of God. After all, he was not tainted with the presence of sin.
He was, in effect, a divine transformer. Just like the transformers on the light poles that bring the power of the high voltage lines down to where we can use them, so Jesus brings the power of God down to where we can touch God.
He touches God because he was perfect. He touches us because he was human. Through him, we can touch God.
That is the point of the Christmas season: the introduction into the world of the means whereby we can touch God.
God’s love endures forever.
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