Focus: God in the Flesh

Text: Lk.1:35

"And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God."

Before the angel of the Lord spoke these words, Mary had inquired, "How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?" - Lk.1:34.

Before this question, the angel of the Lord appears to Mary, and announces that she would conceive a child in her womb, and describes the child as one of heavenly origin with a divine role to fill on earth. The whole point the angel was making is that God would become human through Mary and nothing short of God's power is required to actualize it.

So through a human vessel God took a human form - "the word became flesh." Through a human instrumentality God becomes visible and touchable.

John announces, "That which was from the beginning, which we have HEARD, which we have SEEN with our eyes, which we have LOOKED upon, and our hands have HANDLED, of the Word of life" - 1Jh.1:1.

The Word of life through a human vessel can now be felt, seen, heard and touched. Through the believer as God's vessel the invisible and intangible God becomes visible and tangible.

Mary was a prepared body that manifested the supernatural presence and power of God. The church as Christ's prepared body on earth is given the mandate to reveal God in the world in visible and tangible ways.

Someone needs to see and hear God through you. You are another Mary today. God has been conceived in the womb of your soul. You are divinely impregnated for the divine manifestation of God. Through you God is becoming visible and tangible again. It is written, "A body hast thou prepared me" - Heb.10:5. God needs a body again. The world needs to see, hear, and touch God again. You are God's 'medium of manifestation,' God's 'vehicle of vision,' and God's 'instrument of illumination.' Let God be God in your life. The word has become flesh; let's not reverse the flesh to word again, for it's in the flesh that men will see God. Amen.

by Bishop Moses E. Peter