1197 The Aim and Significance of the Incarnation
I
The aim of My incarnation is chiefly to allow all those who believe in Me to behold the deeds of My divinity in the flesh, and to see the practical God Himself, thus dispelling the place within people’s hearts that is occupied by the invisible and intangible God. Because I eat, clothe Myself, sleep, dwell, and act like a normal person, because I speak and laugh as a normal person and have the needs of a normal person, while also possessing the essence of full divinity, I am called “the practical God.” The core aim of My incarnation is to reveal My divinity through normal humanity.
II
In Me, there has never been human life, nor any trace of humanity. Human life has never held a place in Me or suppressed the revelation of My divinity. Thus, the more My voice in heaven and the intentions of My Spirit are expressed, the more Satan can be shamed, and so the easier it becomes to follow My will within normal humanity. This alone has defeated Satan; Satan has already been utterly shamed. Because My work in the flesh is without hindrance, and because the practical God now has a place in people’s hearts and has set down roots in their hearts, it is fully proven that Satan has been defeated by Me.
III
All people are caused to behold My wondrous deeds and see My true face: I am not beyond reach, I do not tower in the sky, and I am not formless and amorphous. I am not invisible like air, and nor am I like a floating cloud, easily blown away; instead, though I live among man and experience the sweetness, sourness, bitterness, and fieriness among man, yet My flesh is substantively different to that of man. People are made to know My wondrous deeds from the doings of My flesh, to know God’s essence; I am not, as man imagines, abnormal and supernatural. Rather, I am the practical God who is normal in all things. People come to know Me in reality; only then do I take My true place in people’s minds.
from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Interpretations of the Mysteries of “God’s Words to the Entire Universe,” Addendum: Chapter 1
