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Daily readings to help you see Jesus' light in your life
by Selwyn Hughes
The Thrilling Truth
"... but made himself nothing ... being made in human likeness
..." (v. 7)
-- For reading & meditation: Philippians 2:1-11
We are reflecting on the fact that the Christian faith is not just a
little better than other faiths but radically different. Religion is
mankind's search for God; Christianity, however, is God's search for
man. Therefore there are many religions, but only one gospel.
Religion is the word become word; the gospel is the Word become
flesh. The commentator William Barclay, when writing on the verse
"And the Word became flesh" which we looked at yesterday, said that
this phrase explains why John wrote his Gospel. John apparently could
not get over the fact that God had become man in the Person of His
Son, and he sustained that thought throughout the whole of his
writings. Augustine, the great saint of the fourth and fifth
centuries, remarked that in his pre-Christian days he had never read
anything comparable to that phrase: "And the Word became flesh." One
thing the ancient Greeks could never contemplate was that God could
reveal Himself in bodily form. To the Greeks the body was a prison in
which the soul was shackled, a tomb in which the spirit was confined.
Plutarch, the wise old Greek, believed it was nothing short of
blasphemy to expect God to involve Himself in the affairs of the
world. Yet in the face of this, the highest thought of the New
Testament world, the gospel unfolded the thrilling truth that the Son
of God became the Son of Man in order that the sons of men might
become sons of God. Could anything in heaven or earth be more
wonderful than that? If so, I have yet to hear it.
PRAYER:
Blessed Lord Jesus, how can we thank You enough for taking on
Yourself a human form and showing us what God is really like? For we
could never have known unless we had seen. Having seen, it is
sufficient. We want no other. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
1 John 4:1-2; Rom.1:1-4; 8:1-4
1. What does a true believer always acknowledge?
2. How did Paul put it?
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