God Was Manifested In The Flesh

MARCH 17

God was manifested in the flesh

1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the 

mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh,

justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto

the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

The manifestation of God is in the person and work of Christ, and we are therefrom to learn what God is, and what we may expect Him to do for us.

What Jesus was to those about Him, such Jehovah is; what Jesus did and was willing to do, that our God is willing to do for us.

In Jesus we seek tender love, melting compassion, and gracious forbearance; mercy and power, rectitude and pity, holiness and long-suffering, justice and harmlessness, united.

Such is our God.

Fury is not in Him.

Love is His name and His nature. And can you slavishly fear such a God?

Can you wilfully sin against and grieve such a being?

Cannot you believe His word, depend upon His veracity, rejoice in His name, and expect from Him every promised good?

For this purpose His word was written, His name is published, and Jesus died.

Always look at God in Christ; attempt not to learn God from nature. “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him.”

“I have manifested thy name."

Till God in human flesh I see,

My thoughts no comfort find;

The holy, just, and sacred Three,

Are terrors to my mind:

But if Immanuel‘s face appear,

My soul surmounts each slavish fear.

James Smith