Merry Christmas! Incarnation and Atonement; these are of apiece as we celebrate the coming of the Son of Man as a babe in a manger. The trajectory of His freely elected life to be us that we might be Him, by grace, through union with Him, in His vicarious humanity for us, is a cruciform trajectory that first confronts us in the womb of Mary; and then in the wood of the manger. He was born that we might have life, and that more abundantly. He became God with us, Immanuel; not by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit. It is by this same Spirit that as He unioned with us, we might now union with Him in the eternal bosom of the Father. This is the Good News of Christmas! I hope all of my readers, and all of yours, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
stole the picture from Christianity Today