God With Us (NKJV)

“God was manifest [revealed] in the flesh”(1 Timothy 3:16).Just think of the magnitude of God taking on the form of a man, and becoming one of us. Because He loves us, He put aside the glory due to the King of kings and chose to be born where animals lived. He left a perfect place to enter this world with all of its evil and pain. He left the praise and worship of Heaven’s angels for the taunts and jeers of Calvary’s cross.His coming happened like this: “[Mary] brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn” (Luke 2:7).Why did God become a man?He loves us: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).To save us: “The Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost” (Luke 19:10).For His bride, the Church: “Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the L