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The Trancended God Descended





The Lord God is transcendent. He is omnipotent (all powerful), omniscient (all-knowing, Colossians 2:2-3),and  omnipresent (present everywhere). We His creation are inferior. We cannot fully grasp His omnibrain, nor judge His endless wisdom and power. The Lord is above and beyond us, and many churches even endeavor to leave it that way, ignoring the incredible fact that God decided to descend, to take on human flesh and blood (John 1:1-21) and walk among us, be touched by us (John 20:27), and achieve salvation and intimacy with us: 

The Transcendent God did not stay beyond our reach, He became meek and even a baby (Matthew 1 and 2, Luke 1 and 2), He ate (Matthew 9:10) and suffered hunger (Matthew 4:1-11), He felt the ire and indifference of people, and He died a criminals’s death for our sins on the cross though He was innocent. At the cross, the curtain came crashing down (Matthew 27:48-51) and “we may now enter into the holiest place by the blood of Jesus.” (Hebrews 10:19). The Transcendent God became flesh and died so that the fear of death and the power of death would be destroyed, “Because God’s children are human beings—made of flesh and blood—the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the devil, who had[g] the power of death. Only in this way could he set free all who have lived their lives as slaves to the fear of dying.” (Hebrews 12:14-15, NLT). Jesus then proved He was God and that He had conquered death by rising from the dead (John 20:1-28).  He then ascended so that He may sit at the Father’s right hand, but He didn’t go back to being Transcendent as before, Christ Jesus transcended us! He transformed us through faith in Him, and now The Transcendent God lives in us and we live in Him!, “All who confess that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God.” (1 John 4:15). 

The Transcendent Triune God was never far from His children. He spoke to Adam, Abraham, the prophets and Psalmists, but at the Incarnation, when the Godhead became human flesh (Colossians 2:9) He changed everything! Now the Transcendent had the descendant’s flesh, and He could be seen and touched without altars, incense, and cantors; He became man and tore down every impediment between us and Him; sin, death, fear, shame, religious yokes (Matthew 23:1-41), and pain. 

The Incarnation is a Miracle! It is God saying “I am transcendent and omni-everything, but I love you my children so much I shall lower myself and become touchable, knowable, reachable, connectable, and relatable.” Jesus Christ is the the True God, and to the astonishment of the world He choose to come down from the heavens and throne to be like us (according to the flesh, His spirit is God, Romans 1:1-5) and suffer  and save us! Jesus is our Lord and He came to save us, but He also made it possible for us to relate to Him! He chose to make Himself approachable and touchable! Think of that kind of love! He willingly choose us and lowered Himself without sinning to be close to us and die for our sins! He has now made it possible through faith in Him (Jesus Christ) to be in Him and Him in is! (1 John 4:15, John 17:20-23, Colossians 1:27, 1 Corinthians 3:16). We are now inside the Transcendent God and He is in us! (1 John 4:15). We are now one with God as Jesus and Father is One and as the Holy Spirit is One with Father and Son (Holy Trinity, John 14:26, 15:26, John 17:20-23, and John 20:20-22, 1 John 4:15, Colossians 1:27)! Think about this! God who could have remained behind the veil of the the clouds and stars, lifted them by becoming flesh (John 1:1-21, 1 John 4:1-18) and He drew close to us and now draws us close to Himself having torn down the curtains of sin and death (Hebrews 2:4-5, 14-15), and now the Transcendent God has made us One with Him through faith in the Son, Jesus Christ. 


The Transcendent God Descended in flesh and has Ascended and ascended us into Him through faith in Jesus, and now the Transcendent God lives in us and we live in Him! (1 John 4:15). We now are forever close to Him and no barrier is between us, no curtain, no trellis, no cloud, or stars or demons or people or seas or antthing on earth, heaven, or in hell, space, and time can seperate us from Him (Romans 8:38-39, John 10:27-30). We now live in Transcendent God and He in us and we await Him to come again in the flesh and rule and make a new heaven and earth (Revelation 19:11-16, Revelation 20:4-11, Revelation 21:1-4). God is close to us now, no barriers, and so let no one mislead you into thinking God is unknowable or untouchable! God has come in the flesh and died for our sins so that we may be close to Him and know Him. Amen.  

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