The Son of Man

“The Word was made flesh,

and dwelt among us,

and we beheld his glory,

the glory as ofthe Only Begotten of the Father.”

John 1:14

The Son of Man: God in the flesh. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, became the Son of Man. The exact representation of God took on humanity. Without sacrificing one ounce of his deity, he became completely human and lived among sinners.
How could this be? Must the infinite God come in the flesh? If Jesus Christ was not completely human, he could not die in the place of fallen men. If he was not a man, he could never give his life as the perfect sacrifice for sinners.
Yet Jesus Christ is very God, one with the Father, the exact image of the person of God. How could this be? His deity gives his sacrificial death its infinite value. Because he is holy God, he could die for the sin of the world instead of suffering for his own sin.
Without the incarnation of Christ, we have no Savior, no hope of eternal life, no promise of forgiveness. Here is the beauty of Christmas: God became man to live among us, to die for us, to reconcile us to God by his death.