The incarnation of God teaches us to see differently. A god who cannot comprehend our pain or understand our trouble is a false god. The God of Jesus Christ knows what it means to be poor, to be troubled in spirit, to suddenly lose his best friend to death, to be falsely accused, to be slandered, to be abandoned by his closest companions, to be misunderstood by family, to be mocked, ashamed, humiliated, and hated. He knows what it means to face death. In the incarnation, “God becomes our neighbor.”
