Oswald Chambers – My Utmost for His Highest – Wednesday, 25
December 2013 “His Birth and Our New Birth”
Behold, a virgin shall bring forth a son, and they shall call
His name Emanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.(Isaiah 7:14 (R.V.))
His Birth in History. "Therefore also that holy thing which
shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." (Luke 1:35.) Jesus
Christ was born into this world, not from it. He did not evolve out of history;
He came into history from the outside. Jesus Christ is not the best human
being, He is a Being Who cannot be accounted for by the human race at all. He
is not man becoming God, but God Incarnate, God coming into human flesh, coming
into it from outside. His life is the Highest and the Holiest entering in at
the Lowliest door. Our Lord’s birth was an advent.
His Birth in Me. "Of whom I travail in birth again until
Christ be formed in you." (Gal. 4:19.) Just as Our Lord came into human
history from outside, so He must come into me from outside. Have I allowed my
personal human life to become a "Bethlehem" for the Son of God? I
cannot enter into the realm of the Kingdom of God unless I am born from above
by a birth totally unlike natural birth. "Ye must be born again."
This is not a command, it is a foundation fact. The characteristic of the new
birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.
Immediately Christ is formed in me, His nature begins to work through me.
God manifest in the flesh – that is what is made profoundly
possible for you and me by the Redemption.
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