Tozer on the Son of Godਨਮੂਨਾ

The Incarnation

"Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us” (Psalm 90:17). Was there ever anything more beautiful than the story of Jesus' birth? Was there ever anything more beautiful than the picture of Jesus walking up and down among men in tenderness of humility, healing the sick and raising the dead, forgiving sinners, and restoring poor fallen people back to society again? Is there anything more wonderful than His going out to the cross to die for those who were crucifying Him?

Was there anything lovelier than to be the Creator of His own mother, to have made the very body that gave Him protection and bore Him at last into the world? Was anything more awful and awesome and mysterious than that God-Man walking about among men, saying, “I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven” (Luke 10:18), and “Before Abraham was, I am” (John 8:58)? He was “the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father” (John 1:18).

Lord God, thank You for willingly coming to earth and becoming so vulnerable. You are a selfless, loving God. I stand in awe of You, O Lord. Amen.