Excerpt from The Miracle of Life

‘Tell me the story again and again,
How the word became flesh and was living withmen.
He came as the Seed , the seed of us all ,
then He took us to Calvary, and right throughHis fall;
From a seed in the ground He lifted us up,
and this is the reason, we too take the cup.
Yes, Mary went with Him to Calvary too,
and Simeon had waited and Simeon knew,
This child was for many and not just for one,
He was God’s new creation, the Father’s Son.’

We’re in Him, and with Him, and He is in us;
and this is the miracle, of life.

From ‘La Vita’, musical companion to The Miracle of Life , by the same authors.

In every way, Jesus Christ was like a seed. He was called the ‘seed’ of Abraham, because He promised to enter the human lineage through Abraham, and did so some 2000 years later.

However, this ‘Seed,’ overshadowed in Mary’s womb, and born in fulfilment of the promise to Abraham, was like no other.

He was not just a miracle child. Nor was this merely an intervention of God to join Himself to the human race, as a secret Saviour. Christ was the seed of God Himself. And in the same way that seeds carry the life and identity of a new and fruitful creation, so did Christ.

This particular Seed, becoming flesh in the womb, did not just begin to be at that moment of conception, as we do in this human sphere. This Seed was the pre-existing person of ‘the Word’. This is what John’s Gospel tells us in stating that ‘the Word was with God and was God, and that ‘the Word became flesh’. John 1:1.

The significance of this is enormous, for this person of the Word who became flesh, was already the only begotten Son of God. He was already the full expression of the will of God. So then, as He became flesh as the Son of Man, He was not just one Seed. He carried forward, from before the beginning, the imprint of all the seeds, all the individuals that would come forth from Him, through faith, into a new creation. This ‘Seed’ then, was a multitude in the making.

Abraham was told that this would be the case, back in his day. He was shown the multitude of the stars of heaven, and told that his seed would thus be. In and through Christ, there would be a new creation – another creation. It’s essential that we understand this, because Christ manifested and introduced a life that was more than human life.

Creation, and human life as well, as we witness them from day to day, are a miracle , without doubt. However, the new creation contained in Christ, this Seed containing a plentiful harvest of sons, was an even more wondrous miracle. Yes, there is another creation, a new heavens and new earth; a creation that supersedes this present existence.

We must know this, for only then do we understand who Christ is. When He came in the flesh, He was not merely the pinnacle of this creation, as if to be the best that this creation can offer. Certainly, He was called the ‘last Adam’, indicating that He brought closure to the race of Adam. But He was much more – for if He was only the best of humanity, what would His salvation offer? Are we to be restored to the condition of Adam? No, Christ introduced another life altogether, something beyond human life. Because He came as a New Creation, a ‘life-giving Spirit’ as we are told, then our attention is drawn to the ‘life’ that He brought to us. 1 Cor 15:45. His ‘eternal life’ is more than human life, as exceptional as that is.