“I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you” (Gal. iv. 19).
It is a blessed moment when we are born again and a new heart is created
in us after the image of God. It is a more blessed moment when in this new
heart Christ Himself is born and the Christmas time is reproduced in us as
we, in some real sense, become incarnations of the living Christ. This is
the deepest and holiest meaning of Christianity. It is expressed in Paul’s
prayer for the Galatians. “My little children, for whom I travail in birth
again till Christ be formed in you.”
There will yet be a more glorious era when we, like Him, shall be
transformed and transfigured into His glory, and in the resurrection shall
be, in spirit, soul and body, even as He.
Let us live, under the power of the inspiring thought, incarnations of
Christ; not living our life, but the Christ-life, and showing forth the
excellencies, not of ourselves, but of Him who hath called us “out of
darkness into His marvelous light”; so our life shall be to all the
re-living in our position of the Christ life, as He would have lived it,
had He been here.