I is for Increase

As the Son became tiny enough to be Christ, so vastly will God enlarge our lives from brief to eternal, which we cannot, multiplying the nation and increasing its joy. This he accomplishes not from a distance, but in himself. Talk about taking things personally! How big of God to make himself so small. No wonder that Mary, contemplating the little Son in her womb, magnifies the Lord.

Even today, cosmically large as his glorification has made him, Jesus is still big enough to become little enough to be in us. Once I shared his Supper with a hospital patient who was medically directed to consume nothing. I chipped off a tiny fragment of wafer and absorbed with it a fraction of a droplet of wine. She had been well catechized, for she had no trouble believing my reassurance that the smallness of the amount of bread and wine she received did not mean she received a minute part of her Lord's body. For his word is always, This is my body, and never, This is part of my body. Scientists of geometry might throw up their hands at such a theorem. Maybe they would throw their hands up in praise of the Lord who becomes as small as he needs to become to accomplish his rescue of us even so far as to dwell in us. They may even join us, throwing up their empty hands themselves to receive the Lord, all of him.