On the seventh day
of Christmas, God’s true Love gave to me…
…a picture of what our salvation might look like.
I’m always struck by the juxtaposition of the lesson from
Isaiah (61:10-62:3) and the introduction to John’s gospel (1:1-18) that we read
on this first Sunday after Christmas each year of the three lectionary cycles. John
tells us that the true light which enlightens everyone was coming into the
world, light that the darkness did not overcome. This is the Word, which was
with God in the beginning; which in fact, was
God; the Word that “became flesh and lived among us…full of grace and truth.” God
the Word took on human flesh; we who are made in God’s image could see what
true and perfect humanity looked like.
At the same time, Isaiah speaks of being clothed with the
“garments of salvation” and the “robe of righteousness”. The prophet speaks of
beautiful and hopeful promises made to Zion, to Jerusalem, to God’s people. If
that salvation, that Word, became human in Jesus the Christ, is it possible
that the garment of salvation looks like us? Not as we are, certainly; but as
we should be, or could be, or might be, and one day, by the grace upon grace of
God, will be?
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