.....and the Lord for the body (1 Cor 6:13)

How closely God is now connected to our bodies!
​God has revealed himself in history and Scripture as the triune God. This revelation has commonly been expressed by all Christians in the idea of the Trinity: there is only one God who eternally exists in the three distinct persons of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. 
Now given this glorious and mysterious revelation of the true God, consider how closely this God has connected himself to human nature. It is so close that the majority of the holy divine Society of the Godhead are now very closely (even integrally) related to it: 

• God the Son took on (assimilated) human nature into himself at the first 'Christmas' period. He lived and died and was raised  to the right hand of God in a glorious new human nature. He is today the embodied God at the right hand of God the Father.  All this is expressed in the words 'the Incarnation of God'. As John said The Word became flesh. 
• God the Holy Spirit now indwells the bodies and lives of those redeemed by Jesus Christ. He indwells Christians and has a very intimate bond with their human bodies. The apostle Paul reminded one early Christian Church of this when he said: 'don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit'

It is only God the Father who does not have an immediate close bond with a human body. Yet if we consider that he is the creator of all humans then we must not forget that he sustains an indirect relationship with all humans. 

So, at this Christmas season, consider afresh how closely the true God is related to human nature and human bodies through Jesus Christ. May it change the way you think about God and help you respond  to those hopeful words of the Bible: 'Draw near to God and he will draw near to you'.