What do we get for Christmas? (1 Jn. 4:2-3)
Image from Pixabay At Christmas, whatever the world may do with it, we Christians are helpfully reminded of, as we joyfully celebrate, the birth of Christ. It is good for us to celebrate this reality, for it is not just the story of a baby that brings peace on earth and good will toward men, but it is the reality that God became man, that the eternal “Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (Jn. 1:14). Christmas is about the incarnation of the Son of God, who became man and so was and continues to be God and man in two distinct natures and one person forever (Shorter Catechism). It is the confession of the incarnation that the apostle John is talking about here in 1 John 4. You see it in the words “Jesus Christ is come in the flesh” in verse 2. Actually, the verb that John uses tells us that not only did Jesus come in the flesh in the past, but that he remains so. ...
