I stumbled across this thought regarding the Incarnation of Christ originally published in The Penecostal Herald and then reprinted in the November-December 1948 edition of The Preachers’ Magazine. The language is beautiful, as is the picture conjured by it.
“The Incarnation marked an epoch in human thought and a distance crisis in the history of Redemption. Christ brought a touch upon human history such as no other being ever did: He touched ‘the slave, and his shackles fell off; He touched the weak, and they became too strong to be oppressed; He touched the home, and it became a bower of delight; He touched the credle , and childhood became sacred; He touched music, and it became pure and sweet; art, and the canvas took on lustrous beauty; architecture, and it became worthy of man’s worship.’ He lent man a new heart, and the publican rose up with the dignity of a king. He taught man the law of love, and that law brought order into society and the realm of morals, as Newton’s law of gravity brought law and harmony into the realm of matter.”
