AP: Significance of the Incarnation

AP writes:

The incarnation might look like a big word that is very confusing. But after some teaching in a Bible class I'm taking, I realized it's not the word that perplexes me but the concept. I have found that Jesus loves when we are perplexed over one concept- trying to understand Him. Because of the incarnation we are now able to say that whoever has seen Jesus has seen God. The incarnation revealed the passionate, zealous, pursuing heart of God for humanity. If God was willing to take on our form, the human frame, what other depths is He willing to go for us? It demonstrates His unrestrained love for us. He never stops until you're just like Him and have received the place He purchased for you on Calvary. As it says in Phil. 2:6-7 Love "did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking on the form of a bond servant and coming in the likeness of men."

I had no real understanding why Jesus had to take on flesh until I came across this point. Jesus became a human being because God could not suffer and lacked a back to be beaten. God needed a back like our backs on which to receive blows and thereby to perform compassion as well as preach it. "God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself." (2 Cor. 5:19) When He took on flesh He forever linked humanity to Himself. He CHOSE to be human FOREVER. That is the extent of His love for us. When Christ came into the world as a human, eternal life became embodied in the human form and He became a fountain of life for all who would receive Him. When God joined Himself to humanity, He entered time. He came from a place outside of time and restrained Himself in time for you and I. The incarnation also reestablished human dominion on the Earth. God used human beings once again to establish His government on the earth. What was lost in the Garden was restored by Jesus. He came to the earth to dwell with men in the fullness of God. He was fully human yet radiating the glory of God and wrapped in light. He is fully God, fully man, two natures in one person. We truly have an awesome God!