When God speaks, God acts. Did you ever notice that? Our God is an active, acting God. God doesn’t merely dwell in some cloud millions of miles away, but God actively intervenes in our lives and in our world.

God’s most blatant intervention?  Jesus.

In the form of Jesus, God broke through into the created world, touched down in the middle of the desert, and started a ripple movement that would culminate in a life, death, and resurrection! Why? Because something radical had to happen. God thought it was time to do something spectacular, miraculous, stupendous, unparalleled in the world so far.

As if Creation itself were not enough!

God perhaps wanted to experience creation from the inside out, see life as we see it, because God needed us to understand God in a way that we could see, hea…