Gods Greatest Miracle

The Bible is full of many supernatural miracles, but the transcending miracle of all was the gift of His Son. Genesis and Revelation are the Alpha and Omega of Scripture, and both books tower above the natural world. They are so supernatural in content and the activities of God’s revelations, yet the manifestation of God in the flesh supercedes them, worlds apart. I never cease to thrill when I read the God-language of Genesis, “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” (Genesis 1:3) Even so are the words of His-speak in Revelation as He declares, “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning [Genesis] and the ending [Revelation], saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” (Revelation 1:8)

Genesis is the building block of the Bible, and Revelation is the capstone; and everywhere in between is filled with the glory of His appearance. Genesis is the picture of sin’s dark intrusion and God’s groundwork of a grand redemption. You cannot study Genesis without seeing the “hill of a skull” in the distance. Christ’s entrance into our world would have been Divine wastefulness without the event of sin. Revelation is the perfect end of the incredible failure on man’s part. The Great Creator will not be defeated because perfect holiness cannot be defeated. Twenty-six times in Revelation we see the “Word made Flesh” become as a “Lamb that was slain”. It is so beautiful to see in Genesis “the spoken Word” and in Revelation “the smitten Word.”

This great miracle of GodÂ’s gift is the greatest event of human history. Our Father did not choose some lofty scheme to satisfy manÂ’s curiosity or intellectual pride. ItÂ’s no wonder that the high and mighty reject the Christ of God. The entire event of this great miracle is utterly simple and free of kingly design. The Father was not trying to impress the mighty but to redeem the humble. The Son of God was carried in the womb of a simple Jewish maiden. The caretaker and husband of this unmarred vessel was willing to restrain himself from his rightful possession of her body to preserve the Divine in her care. The Divine child was born in a cow stable while being serenaded by heavenly angels. Heaven and earth could never have met together in greater contrast.

There is not one moment of His life or death that has the trappings of the ecclesiastical high church of today’s religions. He rejected it in the temple of His day and He rejects it in the church of our day. He came as a simple servant to satisfy the Divine justice of human failure. The Apostle Paul dared to speak of Him with a clear description of His humanness. He said, “Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.” (Hebrews 5:7-9) Yes, He was God, but He was God in the flesh spelled with a little “f.” What a miracle that God, who could never cease to be less than Divine and eternal, but also in love, became human.

When we read of such miracles as this, we tend to put it in a form of religion and human pride that sin has sparked in the high and mighty. We see these great religious systems of our educated world and are tempted to match them, thinking they will be impressed and will then honor our Savior and Christ with their faith. This effort has always destroyed the faith. God rejects it and man will only give it lip service at best.

The true faith of the saints is still the simple life of separation and surrender. It is impossible to conduct high church at the foot of the cross. This great miracle that brought God down to us will ultimately take us up to Him but until it does, it must be lived in humility and simplicity. We must live as He did if we expect to become as He became. The Apostle said it clearly, “Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.” (1 Corinthians 15:46-49)
Remember, “…as we have borne the image of the earthy…” we will very soon be caught up to share the image of the heavenly. Glory is awaiting us.