Word Became Flesh

The Word became flesh
Words become people, places and things... or is it the other way around?
Personification: the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form:

And the Word (notice Word is capitalized, signifying a Person, the Personhood of Jesus Christ) was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth (John 1:14)

God made what?
Think about God dear reader: try really hard now, picture Him walking, talking, floating on clouds, orchestrating the sun and moon as they go about their business day and night. 

Funny, I just pictured them on cruise control. Do you suppose God has them on some kind of auto pilot, turning them into their very own self governing light in the sky robots, fully kitted out with smiley faces?

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and for years (Genesis 1:14)

You made what?
Think about you dear reader: try really hard now, picture yourself making your DNA, speaking it into existence, causing it to select your hair and skin colour, your height, and your sex. 

Next, picture yourself selecting your parents, your origin of birth, your accent, even that mole that everyone looks at, to the right of your right nostril. Move on to your kids now, you know, the ones you said you wanted and then made?

All teasing aside, there is this:

For you formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb (Psalm 139:13)

Words live and breathe
Words are alive dear reader! They have power and might inside of them. Words are concepts, sentiments, and feelings, that can be noble and enriching, or vulgar and abasing. Words capture the imagination, and words become. Words turn into action, and change the flesh, change DNA, warp or wrap the speaker and the hearer. Words are the power of God personified, trapped or released into the world when we speak.

Love in Action

Male and female
He created them

This is why love in action is so vitally important. It is not just a concept, it becomes, it is personified when you and I are the hands, the feet, the messenger, the warm embrace. 

We are creative because we are the created; He knows our inmost being and knit us together, in His image: 

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them (Genesis 1:27)

You bear the image of God Almighty, the Word incarnate... is this what people see, when they look at you? 

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and theWord was God (John 1:1)

Do you, dear one, resemble Jesus, the Word? Will you be His hands, His feet, His messenger, His warm embrace for someone, for many someones? 

Think on this, speak the word yes and now go, be ... love