Christmas is one of those times I ruminiate, refocus and remember Jesus is “God in the flesh”. It’s a seasonal celebration of God coming to us in human form. What is a human? I allege I’m a human, and assume that you are also. Some days we produce enough evidence to prove we are human, some days too much!
The Jesus who comes to us in humanity existed before he arrived among us . . .
“The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
As God, Jesus became a human. Again, “what is a human?” Page one of “the Book” reads . . .
God said, "Let us make humans in our image, in our likeness” . . . so God created us humans in his own image, in their image God created us; male and female.
Humans are, “Divine creations who bear His image as moral, spiritual, creative, rational, relational and responsible”. All of us as human bear God’s image. Often marred, defaced but not so destroyed as it cannot be renewed through personal response of faith in Jesus. Good news, the human Jesus came to die and rise again for us to make “born-again faith” possible.
Hold it ... image is only half the “human equation”. There’s also likeness. “Divine likeness is our being compassionate, related to broader humanity, serving, grace-giving, incarnating truth through lifestyle” Growing in resemblance of the Divine likeness is the big challenge of being human.
As an image bearer, how am I working on likeness? Christ-likeness is God’s measure of true humanness ... its how the young church summed up Jesus as God in the flesh amongst them.
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