When the Wrapping is Removed…

Some people go to great lengths to wrap their Christmas gifts, creating beautiful, ornate packages. Inside the wrapping, however, could be a very common gift. Conversely, God's precious gift to mankind was delivered in very common wrapping. The correlation is straightforward. Mankind dresses up his frail flesh in finery, while God cloaked Jesus’ finery in frail flesh (Romans 8:3).

The Jewish leaders could not accept that Jesus was the Messiah because they expected him to arrive in the wrappings of royalty. But even as His divinity was wrapped in human form, so too, His divine life lies within us, under the trappings of sinful flesh. But, when Christ, who is our life, is revealed, we also will be revealed with Him in glory. But until then, we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us (1 Cor. 15:49; Col. 1:27;2 Cor. 4:7). And that about wraps it up, doesn’t it.