God, Our Real Superhero

We see it all the time in comic books, science fiction movies and television shows. We’re used to it. We don’t think twice about it. Super heroes begotten from things like water, somehow coalescing the molecules of H2O into a powerful being that rises up out of the sea or even a puddle on the floor. Or maybe it’s a character made of fire that can hurl great balls of flame at an adversary. I’ve seen trees come to life, furniture that can dance and talk, as well as creatures made of rock that can smash you with the thrust of a fist.

As long as we’re careful about what we choose to watch, science fiction can be entertaining. But don’t let it desensitize you to the greatest super hero event of all time. What God did two thousand years ago in the small town of Bethlehem was not science fiction, and nothing will ever compare to it. God, in His powerful, miraculous and mysterious ways made His Word a living, breathing, human being and brought Him forth through a virgin. John 1:14 says, The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us.

I love thinking about that. How did He do it? What did that process look like? How did His very own

Word coalesce into the person of Jesus Christ? I guess it really doesn’t matter how he did it, just that He did do it.

While thinking about this, I suddenly had the revelation that this same kind of miracle takes place in the lives of people who call on Jesus as Lord and Savior. His Word coalesces in a living, breathing, human being - not in the same way that he brought His one and only Son into existence, but just as powerfully, miraculously, and mysteriously. His Word alive in us! How cool is that?

John also tells us in verse 1:4 In Him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.

At Christmas, we celebrate the Word becoming flesh, but let us not only look back at the awesome miracle of the virgin birth, but let us look to the present wonder of the Word in us and the future hope of more miracles – the coalescence of the Word in others.

Have a very Merry Christmas and a safe, healthy new year.