Which of the following are similar to the ways you've served Christ in your family? [check all that apply]
• Taught your kids to see God's glory in nature
• Washed the dishes without being asked
• Played a board game with your kids
• Encouraged your wife to finish her master's degree
• Attended a child's open house at school
• Worked fewer hours to be with your family
• Set an example of a godly prayer life for your children
• Held a crying child
• Swung on the tire swing with your daughter
• Told your wife why you're still in love with her
• Told your son he's got what it takes
• Coached soccer
• Let you child correct you now and then
• Fixed the vacuum cleaner
• Taught your sons to ride a bike
• Listened patiently to a complaint of your wife
• Taped your child's artwork to your office wall
• Admitted to your kids that you were wrong
• Told your children how Christ entered your life
• Cleaned up vomit
• Taught your children to love books
• Been romantic without expecting sex
• Told your daughter she's smart/beautiful
• Set standards for your kids and stuck to them
• Dealt graciously with a busybody neighbor
• Peeled carrots
• Watched movies together
Can Physical Be Spiritual? Theme of the Week: Getting Down and Getting Human Tuesday, December 21, 2004
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Men of IntegrityNovember/December 2004Can Physical Be Spiritual?Theme of the Week: Getting Down and Getting HumanTuesday, December 2176
Key Bible Verse: Touch me and make sure that I am not a ghost, because ghosts don't have bodies as you see I do! (Luke 24:39) Bonus Reading: 2 Corinthians 1:3–7
We have a hard time seeing the Lord Jesus in a human body—whether depicted on film or canvas. We imagine Him as a spirit in heaven at the right hand of God. But we fail to remember that He's embodied there. Yes, it's a resurrected body, but it's a body still, recognized by those who knew Him, both on earth and in heaven.
A few Christmases ago I was introduced to the poetry of Brian Wren, a contemporary hymn writer whose lyrics appear in a Christmas cantata by J. A. C. Redford titled Welcome All Wonders. These lyrics lead us right to the scandal of the Incarnation:
Good is the flesh that the Word has become good is the birthing, the milk in the breast, good is the feeding, caressing, and rest… Good is the body for knowing the world, sensing the sunlight, the tug of the ground, feeling, perceiving, within and around, good is the body, from cradle to grave, Good is the flesh that the Word has become.
Christ becoming human elevates the state of our existence and brings a sacred presence to our natural human lives.
—John Fischer in BreakPoint WorldView
My Response: How do I picture Jesus at the Father's right hand?
Thought to Apply: God walked down the stairs of heaven with a Baby in His arms
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