Christmas at the Movies: Week 4, Day 3

John 3:16

The descent of God is half the Christmas story. The reason for
the descent is the other half. The second person of the Trinity did
not live among us as a Jewish man, as a break from divine
responsibility, like a king moonlighting as a peasant to see how
the other half lives. Nor is the enfleshment of God, or
incarnation, an experiment, or a ploy. Jesus came to ransom
captive Israel, to redeem his people from their sins. He came as a
savior on a rescue mission. The red poinsettias remind us of the
blood that flowed on the cross. The descent was more than risky,
it was a deliberate self-offering, a self-sacrifice. In Jesus, God
identifies with and goes to war against the things that diminish
and destroy life itself—evil, sin, and death. The Incarnation of
Christ is the joining of heaven and earth, the divine, and the
human, and it is God's missionary journey to seek and save the
lost. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten
son, that whosoever believes in him, might have life eternal.

How do you describe the purpose of God's great descent?

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