Day 9: Messiah would be fully
human and fully God
Read Isaiah 49:1-6
Isaiah 49:1 - Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from
afar. The LORD called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my
name.
One of the most difficult things for some people to believe is that if we say
Jesus is God, how could He also be human? Many insist being human would be too
humiliating for God.
But we read in John 1:1-14 how the Word, the Messiah, was truly God and yet
“the Word became flesh.” This does not mean God had sex with Mary to have a
baby with her – even this thought is offensive. Instead, God simply did a
miracle in Mary, giving her a child as no other woman in history has ever had a
child. The miracle is the same as when God had shaped a man’s body from dirt,
He breathed into the body’s nose and the body became a living man – Adam. God
can, and did in Mary’s case, make a woman pregnant without sex. No other woman
has had this happen before or after Mary. Jesus the Messiah was, and still is,
unique. He has always been God and always will be; and at this time in history
He took on human flesh so we could see and understand God better.
*What is the greatest miracle God has done in your life?