Good Morning Friends,
“Therefore the Lord himself will give you a
sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call
him Immanuel.” (Isaiah 7:14)
One of the things that Isaiah is known for is
the way in which he pointed prophetically to the coming of the Messiah. Isaiah
describes a miracle Israel could look for and when they saw it they could know
that God had sent a special child, Immanuel.
It would be quite a miracle – a virgin would
give birth. That’s impossible! It truly is humanly impossible, but isn’t that
what a miracle is? If it wasn’t humanly impossible it wouldn’t be a miracle! If
we believe that God did indeed create the world, then we must also acknowledge that
He can intervene to do something out of the ordinary, something that could not
happen without His intervention.
And He did! As strange as it is, as
impossible as it seems, God did cause a virgin to give birth to a son. Matthew
looks back to Isaiah’s word and affirms that it came true in the birth of Jesus.
Matthew recorded the angel’s word to Joseph,
“‘She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because
he will save his people from their sins.’ All this took place to fulfill what
the Lord had said through the prophet: ‘The virgin will be with child and will
give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel’ -- which means, ‘God with
us.’” (Matthew 1:21-23)
Imagine that, God broke in to our world to
send Someone very special, born in an impossible way. Isaiah told us of the way
in which He would come hundreds of years before it happened. There must be something
very remarkable and very significant that such a one will do!
There was. There is!
His, by Grace,
Steve
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