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Growing up, I didn’t quite understand the relationship of God to Jesus.  The term Son of God, becoming flesh and being born of a woman never made that type of sense associated with an epiphany or resonating principle that I wrap my young mind around.  Even now I feel for those who struggle with the idea surrounding the Trinity, one God made of several different entities, The Father the Son and the Holy Spirit, making man in “our” image.  Although I have attenuated my understanding to the concepts with God’s Character that I am incapable of comprehending, I have found most of scripture relatively palpable to accept, believe and obey.  It was not until somewhere along the path of my walk with Jesus, after studying Isaiah, that He allowed me to be comfortable, frankly delighted with the idea of God becoming a human.  The idea of Emmanuel is why most men fear Jesus, because He is “God with us”.

My Catholic friends continue to struggle with this thought, as they wish to refer to Jesus as the Son of God, never fully comprehending the enormity of His visitation upon humanity.  You see the Trinity is not just a convenient ideal to explain something that we have neither the language nor the brain matter to fully comprehend it expresses that eternal God “the Father”, eternal creator/ruler “the Son” and the eternal activating/administering power “the Spirit” have been and will always be God.  And Isaiah put in such a manner that explained to everyone intent on understanding that God would become a man and be with us, Emmanuel-God with us.  You see the Son was always God, but chose to subject Himself to enormous ridicule, pain and humiliation to step away from His royal position as Creator/Ruler of the entire universe so that we might again be reacquainted to God.  Considering Him simply the Son of God does not place full gravity upon the idea that God was among us.

Do you think that if the Hebrew rulers knew Him as God they would have taken any chances at upsetting Him?  Do you think that the Romans would have toyed with Him if they knew Him as God?  Do you think that the common people would have chastised, mocked, followed and dishonored Him if they understood that He is God?  Of course not, that it why it is pivotal for us to comprehend what “God among us” truly portends.  The Sovereign Creator of the Universe gave a life that He can freely take up or give to defeat sin and death on our behalf, as we do not have this capacity to regain life or be born again in Spirit.  It was a thing entirely of God, our corruption of what He had made perfect was beyond our ability to undo.  They saw Him simply as a man, should we honesty make that same mistake and perish because of it?  Jesus is God and He is offering us life, but we must make the choice to repent, obey and follow His most gracious gift.  The entire Bible is the story of the plan for Jesus to do what He has completed, in freeing those whom He loves from the imminence of His judgment, which we certainly would have faced without salvation.

I don’t know when Jesus was born, as there is some discrepancy surrounding the exact date, but that doesn’t matter, for this December we will celebrate “God among us”.  I have been without God before I accepted Jesus as my savior and there is nothing anyone can say or do that would entice me to want to return to that miserable, lost state from which I was set free.  Where the enemy fell from Grace, God in Jesus, voluntarily put off Grace for a time to do what must be done to save those whom He loved.  I don’t know about you but I fully understand that God was among us, offering an end to War with Him.  The enormity of that idea overwhelms and humbles me.  How fortunate the few who saw Him in the flesh and understood their blessing.  How wonderful to be in the presence of Almighty God.  Wait, I have His Spirit living in me and I have access to His throne room in prayer and I have a relationship with Jesus Christ the King.  Oh praise God that He is, God with us.