I don’t want to create any offence here, but I was so excited when I read these words in the letter from Egmont and Hildegard Stegen, “… is bringing a holy God down to our level,” that I wanted to celebrate it and to say thank you for putting it so succinctly.

My heart said: “That’s the point isn’t it? Being truly, radically, totally, committed to the gospel is ‘bringing a holy God down to our level.’”

It’s a summary of John 1, “and the word became flesh and dwelt among us.” So much so that “he came to his own but his own did not receive him.”

And that’s the point of Exodus when God came down to our level in a tent.

It’s the point of Kings when God came down to our level in a temple.

It catches Matthew 20:28 brilliantly, “For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many.”

It’s the point of Revelation when God finally comes down to our level permanently: “And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘now is the dwelling of God with man,’” and the new Jerusalem comes down out of heaven to earth.

God’s final plan is to come down to our level.

I genuinely want to thank you, Egmont and Hildegard, for helping me to see freshly what a wonderful thing God did in Jesus. I want to shout it out. It’s good news through Jesus.

– Alan George, Otorohanga