What Jesus Did For Us
Taken from Mere Christianity by C S Lewis
What God did about us was this. The Second Person in God, the Son, became human Himself: was born into the world as as an actual man -- a real man of a particular height, with hair of a particular color, speaking a particular language. The Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby, and before that a fetus inside a Woman's body. If you want to get the hang of it, think how you would like to become a slug or a crab.
A poem by George Herbert, written about 1600:
The God of power, as He did ride
In His majestic glory
Resolved to light, and so one day,
He did descend, undressing all the way.
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