•Sunday, December 25, 2011
''He
was poor, that he might make us rich.
He
was born of a virgin that we might be born of God.
He
took our flesh, that he might give us His Spirit.
He
lay in the manger, that we may lie in paradise.
He
came down from heaven, that he might bring us to heaven...
That the ancient of Days should be born. that he who thunders in the heavens should cry in the cradle...
that
he who rules the stars should suck the breast;
that
a virgin should conceive;
that
Christ should be made of a woman, and of that woman which himself made,
that
the branch should bear the vine,
that
the mother should be younger than the child she bare,
and
the child in the womb bigger than the mother;
that
the human nature should not be God, yet one with God.
Christ taking flesh is a mystery we shall never fully understand till we come to heaven. If our hearts be not rocks, this love of Christ should affect us.
Behold
love that passeth knowledge! Eph 3:19''
-
Thomas Watson, Puritan preacher, 1620-1686
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