Mission Moved to Incarnation

I love what my friend Greg Finke sent me today:

"Advent marks the four weeks leading up to Christmas. We began the season of Advent yesterday in worship with the lighting of the Advent Wreath. Some people call this four week span 'The Christmas Rush,' while others call it 'insanity."'

But Jesus followers know better.

Advent isn't so much a time for us to get ready for a holiday, religious or not, as it is a time for us to refocus on what God was actually getting started that night in Bethlehem and which now extends all the way through history and up to you and me this very morning."

God chose to do more than tell us what He was going to do. On that night in Bethlehem He did it! Mission moved to incarnation! God was moved to love with His hands and feet. He put flesh and blood to His love!

Shouldn't it be the same for you and me today; mission moved to incarnation? Shouldn't the ones who bear Jesus' name be moved to love with our hands and feet? Who can you love today? Where is God providing an opportunity today for you to put flesh and blood to the mission?