Jesus (Immanuel)

When the child Jesus was born, they were to name Him Jesus. Matthew, understood the fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy, and delivers this inspired revelation:

“All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: ‘The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel’ (which means ‘God with us’)” (Matthew 1:22–23).

Jesus fulfilled Isaiah’s prophecy because He was literally “God with us”; He was fully human yet still fully God. The miracle of the Son of God becoming a human and making His home among us so that He could reveal God to us. Jesus was God with us, manifested in human flesh (1 Timothy 3:16).

The Gospel of John beautifully describes the Incarnation: “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. . . . No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known” (John 1:14–18).

Jesus is Immanuel. He is not a partial revelation of God with us; Jesus is God with us in all His fullness: “For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body” (Colossians 2:9, NLT). Jesus left the glories of heaven and took on the form of a servant so that He could identify with us.

Our Immanuel will be with us forever. He made this promise: “I am with you always, even to the end of the age” (Matthew 28:20, NLT

Prayer:
Thank You God, for caring about us that You came to this earth over 2000 years ago in the flesh to show us a better life, a better way to live and to give us life eternal with You!