This week on Things Unseen, we're thinking together about what helps us to meditate lovingly on our Lord Jesus Christ.

And we began to do that because I think of a slight suspicion that many of us feel we're scarcely able to reflect on him for any length of time.

On Monday, I suggested that some Christians have long found that there are basic building blocks that help us.

Christ is one divine person in whom there are two natures, a divine and a human nature, united in that one person.

Yesterday we're thinking about our Lord's divine person.

Today I want to think with you about the fact that he has two natures.

The divine person of the Son of God has always had a divine nature. He is all the

qualities of God. He's, as the shorter catechism says, infinite and eternal and unchangeable, in

his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth.

He's the Lord of Creation.

He's the Lord of Providence, the Lord of History.

And not only so, but as the Divine Son, our Lord has always had a perfect union and communion

with the Father and with the Spirit, always face to face with God,

dwelling in unimaginably great mutual love and joy with the Father and with the Spirit.

It's knowing this that makes John's statement at the beginning of his gospel so utterly amazing to us.

The word became flesh and dwelt among us.

The eternal word took on human nature, conceived as a male child in the womb of a young virgin

named Mary, in the remote region of the Roman Empire that had been

renamed the province of Palestine.

In one sense, you can almost sympathize with the early Christian apologist, Turtullian,

when he wrote, I believe this because it's incredible, although he should really have said he believed it,

although it was incomprehensible.

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