This is a poem that I wrote while meditating upon the amazing condescension of Jesus Christ, “who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men” (Philippians 2:6-7)
Incarnation
A baby cries
amid the straw, fresh-born into a world so strange;
Could this be God,
the eternal Son,
glorious throne for flesh exchanged?
How can this be?
What mind can grasp the untold splendor of this thing?
Almighty God,
The Lord of Hosts
in infant-form to mother clings!
Majestic One,
whose blazing beauty shineth forth to shame the dawn.
Now without form
or comeliness
that any should to him be drawn.
Creator God,
Who made and owns the cattle on a thousand hills;
Now humble, poor,
A stable floor
For solace ‘gainst harsh winter chills.
Perfect Spirit,
Unhindered by the bonds of Adam’s flesh-bound race,
conceived and born
in mankind’s form,
with limits all of time and space.
When once He dwelt
in Heaven high, He was untouched by worldly woe.
Yet willingly
He condescends,
consents the scourge of pain to know.
And not mere pain,
but death itself, and not mere death, but cursed cross,
the Suffering Servant
stoops to bear
to purge away man’s sinful dross.
Was this for me?
Did Glory stoop so low to grace this wretched orb
To set me free,
and for my sin
did He God’s righteous wrath absorb?
‘Tis said
in order to secure the ransom price I could not pay,
He took my form,
and bore the storm
of God’s just punishment that Day.
The Lord of Glory
took my place before the unleashed wrath of God!
Like grapes His blood
beneath the feet
of His Almighty Father trod!
And had He not
consented thus, the confines of the flesh to know,
then I would face
eternal chains
to pay the penalty I owe.
What glorious grace!
The Risen Son, enthroned once more at God’s right hand
has conquered death
through sacrifice
and put to shame hell’s raging band!
“Come to Me,
all you who bend beneath the crushing weight of sin,”
says He,
“and I will give you rest.”
Eternal life is found in Him!
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