Incarnation: God's Story

This week, we are going to go back to some verses straight out of the Bible, because there is a big word that I think we need to understand. It is an important part of God's story, a part that sounds pretty simple, but means big things that can be easy to forget.

The Apostle John wrote this down as a way of starting out his story about Jesus:

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” John 1:14

The Word that John is writing about is another name for Jesus. Jesus became flesh. Jesus became human. Jesus, who is God, became one of us, and He lived here, on earth, just like all of the other people around Him. God lived like a person. God was a person!

And, John says that the only way that people can ever really understand God's kindness and truth is by looking at Jesus, Jesus who was just like us.

Now, Jesus wasn't just like you or just like me. He lived in a different time and place, where people dressed and spoke and did things differently than we do here. But, He was just like the people that He lived with, and I think that that is the important part. Jesus was a person just like the people around him. And, we have a long word for that kind of 'becoming a person like the people around you.' We call that 'incarnation.' Jesus lived an incarnational life; Jesus lived as a person just like the people around Him....

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