Galatians
4:18-19 It
is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, and not only when I am
present with you, my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of
childbirth until Christ is formed in you!
It is a blessed moment when
we are born again and a new heart is created in us after the image of God. It
is a more blessed moment when, in this new heart, Christ Himself is born and
the Christmas time is reproduced in us as we, in some real sense, become
incarnations of the living Christ.
This is the deepest and
holiest meaning of Christianity. It is expressed in Paul’s prayer for the
Galatians: “My little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of
childbirth until Christ is formed in you.”
There will come on day a more
glorious time when we, like Him, will be transformed and transfigured into His
glory, and in the resurrection we will be, in spirit, soul, and body, like Him.
The call from God for us is
to be led by the Spirit’s power to be incarnations of Christ. This is to be
living the Christ-life, not our life. In a Christ-life we reveal Him in our
daily actions and speech. When praised for our actions we redirect them to God
and acknowledge that He has brought out of us the goodness that He alone is.
Our life becomes to others a re-living of the life Christ lived when He walked
among us.
