Immanuel – GOD in Flesh

A new birth in a royal family usually comes with great pomp and fanfare. There is massive media saturation and a lot of celebration. But not in this case. He came as a King and His birth could have been in a castle. Yet the babe born in the barn to parents who were both unknown and poor arrived with little worldly notice. Nobody sent flowers. No nursemaid helped with his diapers. The few gifts He received would come much later.

Why should we even give attention to this birth? Because heaven’s own heart had beat in the womb of a young woman for the previous nine months. Most likely just a young teenager herself, she was full of a faith far greater than the years she had known. Out of her body came God’s omnipotence cloaked in man’s limitation.

Her child was flesh, bones, sinew, and blood. Yet He was also the perfection of Deity. He felt hunger because He was fully human, yet He would later feed five thousand because He was fully God (Luke 9:10-17). He grew thirsty because He was fully human, yet He would one day walk on water because He was fully God (John 6:16-21). Tutored by a peasant girl (Mary) and a carpenter (Joseph), we read that He grew in wisdom and stature (Luke 2:52), yet He also knew what others thought.

PRAYER: Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!! For all eternity Lord I will be experiencing YOU and the riches of YOUR GRACE and LOVE!! HALLELUJAH!!!
By Sis. Cheryl Torain