When we enter the Advent season, we are reminded of that profound moment in human history when the Second Person of the trinity took on human flesh.  Jesus was God incarnate, God with us.  The scriptures teach that this was not one of God’s afterthoughts, or a reaction to events on earth, but the outcome of a plan formed before creation between Father and Son entering into the Covenant of Redemption before time began.  But why?  What purpose, and whose purpose, was served by Christ’s coming?   The first answers appear in John’s gospel, the text for the day.