Imagine the Light

There was an enormous space. So large, in fact, that it is truly impossible for the human mind to comprehend. Its vastness is even difficult for scientists and mathematicians to create formulas to express it. Instead, we have given it a reasonable sounding name: the Universe.

What if this enormous “bubble” of visible and invisible matter was not the only thing present? What if, hovering outside of it all, and keeping things in order there is an Entity – a Being – the Very One Who Created It? Again, we have given this a name: God, Elohim.

The eternal, unending, beyond time, space and matter God. Unfathomable. Perfect. Holy.

What if God, in His infinite desire to set us free became a person and put on flesh? Well, yes, He did. We read about it. “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” John 1:14 ESV

At Christmas we celebrate this miracle. We read the accounts, talk about shepherds, angels, wise men and the virgin birth. It is all so beautiful and miraculous. We light lights in honor of Him. We sing carols.

But wait! There is more. Much more.

Try to see this with me. Picture that incredible vast space, full of stars, planets, nebulae and even dark matter. Focus. Imagine God outside of our universe, gazing in and seeing our need. The need for a Savior. The desperate state of life apart from Him would last forever. The laws of spiritual physics were in place demanding eternal separation. Like the force and constant of gravity, life apart from God would run its course, and there was no escaping it. And the destination was disastrous, eternally affecting every person unable to reach this perfect God and His grace.

God’s miracle is so far beyond the bounds of merely putting on an earth suit – which in itself is stunning enough. God, who is unlimited, pierced the very fabric of the space-time-matter continuum with His light to come to us.

Work with me on this one. I urge you to attempt visualize this. Picture the pure light of a holy and beautiful God breaking through the dark constraints of everything that binds us. His glorious essence blasting into the dimension that we inhabit, creating a portal, if you will. Putting on the cloak of human limitation to reach us and moving His infinite self into our limited space. And yet, even in this limitation, He maintained the infinity of God. Of course, we can’t understand this fully. I only hope you can attempt to imagine this aspect of the miracle of Jesus coming.

Oh yes, there is more!

Our world, our entire fabric of creation was never the same from that moment on. Jesus had physically entered HIs own creation. It boggles the mind. If even infinitesimally understood, it bows the heart and knee in adoration and wonder. We hosted our Creator.

Jesus lived a perfect and holy life. In the moment when his physical form was destroyed by those He came to save, He still was not done. “But many were amazed when they saw him. His face was so disfigured he seemed hardly human, and from his appearance, one would scarcely know he was a man.” Isaiah 54:18 NLT

When Jesus stretched out His arms, He once again did the unthinkable. As the Light of the World was supposedly extinguished, it was not. It could never be, for “This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.” I John 1:5 NKJV

As the mega-miracle of Jesus confining Himself to time and space came to an end, He returned to His Father. Once again Jesus resumed His position outside of our parameters, having fulfilled what He had come to do. However, the “portal”, Jesus, had created, The Way was established forever for us to reach Him. In a real way, our universe, and the very fabric of our individual lives could never be the same. Salvation had truly pierced the darkness – for you and for me.

“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it.” John 1:5 NLT