His Permanent And Eternal Indwelling

In this Advent season, reflect on these words about the incarnation of Jesus:

The spiritual and eternal clothed itself in the form of the natural and temporal. God himself, Elohim, Creator of heaven and earth, as Yahweh, God of the covenant, came down to the level of the creature, entered into history, assumed human language, emotions, and forms, in order to communicate himself with all his spiritual blessings to humans and so to prepare for his incarnation, his permanent and eternal indwelling in humanity.

Herman Bavinck (1854-1921)