Praise God—it is almost Sunday! We *get* to return to the church, to worship The True God! In order to help us get ready, here is Thomas Watson, from his, "A Body of Divinity” book. . . .
"Why was Jesus Christ made flesh?"The 'causa prima,' and impulsive cause, was free grace. It was love in God the Father to send Christ; and love in Christ that He came to be incarnate. Love was the intrinsic motive. Christ is God/Man, because He is a lover of man. Christ came out of pity and indulgence to us: 'non merita nostra, sed misera nostra,' Augustine. 'Not our deserts, but our misery,' made Christ take flesh. Christ's taking flesh was a plot of free grace, and a pure design of love. God Himself, though Almighty, was overcome with love. Christ Incarnate is nothing but Love covered with flesh. As Christ's assuming our human nature was a masterpiece of wisdom, so it was a monument of free grace."
