Tuesday, 03 July 2012 The Incarnation is the Son's demonstration
and display of the perfection of the Father in familiar flesh.
God knows where we live, and gave us the Gospel to lead us to
the Way, the Truth and the Life. Christ's life not only guides
us to the way, but made possible for us, through faith in Him,
to walk in that way. His grace gives light and life. He is the
Demonstration of a faithful life lived toward God in a contrary
world of men. Augustine says, in a quote by Calvin, "The thing
to be known is, whither we are to go, and by what way;" and
immediately after infers, that "the surest way to avoid all
errors is to know him who is both God and man. It is to God we
tend, and it is by man we go, and both of these are found only
in Christ" (Augustine, "The City of God", Book 11, Chapter 2).
But our blessings are not only for ourselves, otherwise we would
be as the lepers in the Old Testament story, who, in finding
both deliverance and gold, said "We do not well." We are saved,
not only to be bles