After a very busy week I think it is time for some more Christmas quote. This comes from the Pope known as Leo the Great and this is what he had to say about the incarnation.
"Therefore the Word of God, Himself God, the Son of God who in the beginning was with God, through whom all things were made and without whom was nothing made, with the purpose of delivering man from eternal death, became man; so bending Himself to take on Him our humility without decrease in His own majesty, that remaining what He was and assuming what He was not, He might unite the true form of a slave to that from which He is equal to God the Father, and join both natures together by such a compact that the lower should not be swallowed up in its exaltation nor higher impaired by its new associate. Without detriment therefore to properties of either substance which then came together in one person, majesty took humility, strength weakness, eternity morality: and for the paying of debt, belonging to our condition, inviolable nature united with possible nature, and true God and true man were combined to form one Lord, so that, as suited the needs of our case, one and the same Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, could both die with the one and rise again with the other."
I love these thoughts from Leo and he hits the nail on the head when in His description of Jesus I can picture the manager and the coming of God in flesh as a baby. majesty/humility, strength/weakness, eternity/morality.
The new baby came on that quiet lonely night to pay for the debt that we could not. Amen
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