Many
years ago, C. S. Lewis wrote words that imaginatively captured the challenge of
God becoming a human:
Lying
at your feet is your dog. Imagine, for the moment, that your dog and every dog
is in deep distress. Some of us love dogs very much.
If
it would help all the dogs in the world to become like men, would you be
willing to become a dog? Would you put down your human nature, leave your loved
ones, your job, hobbies, your art and literature and music, and choose instead
of the intimate communion with your beloved, the poor substitute of looking into the beloved's face
and wagging your tail, unable to smile or speak?
Christ,
by becoming man, limited the thing, which to Him was the most precious thing in
the world; his unhampered, unhindered communion with the Father.
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