The Christian hope is astounding. Paradoxical. Glorious. God became man. The eternal Son of God took up our humanity. He entered time. He entered the world as one of us. Paul writes elsewhere that in Jesus, God was “taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross” (Phil. 2: 7-8). God wanted to do something about the plight of the creatures he had made. But he didn’t just want to issue commands from on high. God wanted to change us from the inside out. So he determined to work from within the human race. He came to us as one of us. Jesus was really a man of flesh and blood like every other person. But an ordinary person could not truly affect the course of all humanity. How could what one man did be powerful in every woman and man’s life? Only if that man was also God. Only if that man was also the creator of every man and woman. Only if that man acted not just as an isolated man but as God himself on behalf of us all.

One died for all, therefore all died.

Christ undid death. So in his dying, we “un-died.” We come alive again in Jesus.

"One for All"
2 Corinthians 5: 8-15
Gerrit Dawson