The following is an excerpt from the article, "Pondering Incarnation," taken from the blog Radical Womanhood.
The question everyone asks in the dark night of the soul is "Why did a loving God allow this?" The answer is not to expect perfection in this fallen, short, sin-riddled life but to contemplate the One who came to live with the creatures whose sin marred His creation, and who did so in order to rescue those who put their trust in His salvation. He did so much more than we would ask Him in our pain and misery. Our suffering is very real ... but so was His. And His was more excruciating because it carried with it the Father's judgment for the sins of the world. We do not worship a God who outsourced His solution to our pain, suffering, and alienation from Him. We worship one who humbled Himself to be born with a whiff of scandal, grow up unremarkably, and take on the weight of the world's sin while suffering excruciating physical torture -- all to rescue us. That's the glory of His incarnation.
Joy to the world! Merry Christmas, one and all.
-Carolyn McCulley
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