Incarnation

When we open ourselves to Christ, we begin the process of becoming Aware of and transformed into the image of Christ. We also start to become Aware of the central Mystery of our faith: that God Himself took on human flesh and dwelt among us! This is Incarnation: the Master of the Universe did not despise his creation, and so deigned to sanctify the human body by bringing it up into the Godhead in an amazing and incomprehensible act of Love. But not only did the Savior become a Man, He also sent the Comforter, another helper just like Him, to indwell us. This too is incarnation. We, by entering in to the Kingdom, become "inGoded", partakers of the divine nature as Scripture says (II Pet.1:4). Each one of us as Christians now becomes an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual reality -- that is, sacrament. Our lives and bodies themselves become sacred symbols of the God reality within.