Incarnate Means-?

Incarnate Means - ?

          In a religious magazine, that I have respect for, I read this short statement. Although I have heard it before, I wondered exactly what this means.

          “Later comes the third stage, when God speaks as individual being; “I am the way, the truth and the life.” This is the word made flesh, God incarnate.”

          After reading this and giving this serious thought, I have found meaning that satisficed my longing to understand God. You may not agree but it may give you a clue to your own comprehension of truth.

          God is Spirit. Christ is the son of God: Spirit; Perfect. A prototype, if you will, for all of God’s children. Christ is the pattern, form, model, and the Christ within man. Being spirit, Christ is not form or solid, but is our conscience: which most of us ignore.

          Jesus is God’s only begotten son. He was Mary’s son without a human father-our brother. It isn’t hard to believe Mary was a virgin with child. We may think we have human parents, but what do they know about forming a baby? Can they give a baby fingers and toes? Form a mind, start the heart beating? No! God alone creates life. We are all God’s children.

          Jesus was born a baby just like us. The difference between us and Jesus? He was attuned to His conscience. He listened to the Christ within and learned the unconditional Love of God. He didn’t accomplish miracles. He was so positive that our Father-God is the only power and Creator that no other thought could enter His consciousness. He didn’t see a sick, deformed, suffering human standing before Him needing to be healed. He saw the perfect child of God.

          Jesus definitely knew that the only thing needing healing was the idol worship of another power called Satan. A power that cannot, does not, never has existed. One God the only Creator created all good, nothing evil or fearful. Jesus revealed the truth to them and healing was complete.

          To many people the words “I and the Father are one” and “The word was made flesh, God incarnate,” means that Jesus was God in human form. Incarnate means; in human form; being a living example. Jesus was this example. Not God but Christ.

          I think…Jesus earned the title of Christ by the life that he led. He introduced us to a loving Father in place of a vindictive, punishing, waring tyrant. He explained that God fills all time and all space so that “we live and move and have our being” in the protection of God’s Love. That our Father-Mother-God has not left us floundering alone in a fearful world. We know so little about God’s Reality that we have made an idols of sin, sickness, and death. In ignorance we call them God’s creation, and worship in fear.

          God did not die on the cross. Christ did not die. Jesus died and returned to prove to us that our Father is a God of the living and not the dead.

          “Know ye not that ye are gods?”

          “The kingdom is within ye.”

          “The works that I do ye can do and more” because Jesus taught us that sin, disease and death are not God’s reality.

          546 words                                                 Loretta Ellen Edwards