Certain things we can say were lost to Yahweh forever, when that which is represented by the Son was lost through becoming incarnate in Jesus –responsibilities which were the Son’s alone, exclusively the Son’s eternal aegis.

The first is Yahweh’s creative power. 

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

 In the beginning was the Word (the Son)… All things were made through Him (the Son), and without Him, nothing was made that was made.

When the Son became incarnate in Jesus, God’s ability to create ex nihilo – to create anew – was sacrificed.  There would no longer be anything new under the sun.  Henceforth, Jesus could only work through the materials already at hand, under its already established conditions, its laws, its already innate possibilities.

As many have pointed out, the miracles of Jesus are either concentrations or accelerations of phenomena found naturally occurring – healing, multiplication – or else manipulation of natural forces.  He commands nature; he doesn’t replace or add to it.

And so when elsewhere he advises his followers that in times to come they will do greater miracles than he has performed, he was simply prophetic of the future opening of nature’s wonders and inner workings, its existent possibilities.  The extraction of megatons of power from a few molecules, after all, is simply making potency actual; it’s not creation.

Noah, Babel, Eden itself – these are mythic images of failure and new creation.  That is no longer possible; the possibility was sacrificed.  God and Jesus must make do with the one that surrounds us. 

That’s what the incarnation cost God.  That’s why the decision was terrible: it was irrevocable.