God has something amazing to share with us--it is His character. His glory, His love, and the fullness of His divinity He longs to reveal to us! But we are sinful and cannot look upon God in His glory without being destroyed. So God did something so genius--He sent His Son into this world as a human being, and through Jesus Christ we are able to come into union and communion with the infinite who is invisible! What incredible condescension that the Creator would stoop to become one of His creatures! Jesus is forever our Brother, and we are of eternal value to God because we are part of a royal family by adoption! As by a living-faith surrender we see the loveliness of Jesus and yield the whole heart to this most incredible manifestation of grace, our hearts and minds are transformed and the inevitable result is that we are converted into His image to reveal in our finite sphere the infinite attributes of His divine nature! The divine nature is manifested in all of the fruits of the Spirit without one missing! We will reveal in Him abiding in us true love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance! (See Galatians 5:22-23.) What an incredible joy we get to have in Jesus today!!!!
"Nearly two thousand years ago, a voice of mysterious import was heard in heaven, from the throne of God, 'Lo, I come.' 'Sacrifice and offering Thou wouldest not, but a body hast Thou prepared Me. . . . Lo, I come (in the volume of the Book it is written of Me,) to do Thy will, O God.' Hebrews 10:5-7. In these words is announced the fulfillment of the purpose that had been hidden from eternal ages. Christ was about to visit our world, and to become incarnate. He says, 'A body hast Thou prepared Me.' Had He appeared with the glory that was His with the Father before the world was, we could not have endured the light of His presence. That we might behold it and not be destroyed, the manifestation of His glory was shrouded. His divinity was veiled with humanity,--the invisible glory in the visible human form." {The Desire of Ages, page 23, paragraph 1}
That last sentence really touched me this morning--and to think that as we meditate upon Jesus that His glory is invisible, and that such glory He is reproducing in our characters from glory to glory, from character to character!!!