Whenever one thinks of Jesus there can be no more paradoxical person in history. How can someone be 100% human and yet 100% divine? Yet Scripture tells us that both are true. I like how J. I. Packer talks about Jesus: “The impression of Jesus which the Gospels give is not so much one of deity reduced as of divine capacities restrained.”1
And if this were not beyond the limits of our understanding why not meditate on how Sam Storms summarizes the paradoxes of Jesus:
“The Word became flesh!
God became human!
the invisible became visible!
the untouchable became touchable!
eternal life experienced temporal death!
the transcendent one descended and drew near!
the unlimited became limited!
the infinite became finite!
the immutable became mutable!
the unbreakable became fragile!
spirit became matter!
eternity entered time!
the independent became dependent!
the almighty became weak!
the loved became the hated!
the exalted was humbled!
glory was subjected to shame!
fame turned into obscurity!
from inexpressible joy to tears of unimaginable grief!
from a throne to a cross!
from ruler to being ruled!
from power to weakness!”2
My friends the next time you ponder on the unique paradoxical nature of our Lord don’t try to fully understand it but marvel that because of Christ’s dual nature He was able to take our sins upon Himself and impute His righteousness to us. And as a result we who are born mortal will become immortal! And just as Mary treasured up all the things she heard about her precious baby boy and pondered them in her heart (Luke 2:19) we too should treasure and ponder just how precious we are to Jesus and the host of divine mysteries that we read about Him in Scripture!
1 41 J.I. Packer Quotes | ChristianQuotes.info
2 Sam Storms: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma > The Word Became Flesh! A Meditation on the Paradoxes of the Incarnation