“The virgin will conceive and give birth to a Son, and they will call Him Immanuel which means “God with us” – Matthew 1:23.
The name "Immanuel" appears twice in the Old Testament and once in the New Testament. One of the most comforting of all the names and titles of Jesus, it is literally translated to "with us is God" or, as Matthew's Gospel puts it, "God with us."
When our sins made it impossible for us to come to Him, God took the outrageous step of coming to us, of making Himself susceptible to sorrow, familiar with temptation, and vulnerable to sin's disruptive power, in order to cancel its claim. In Jesus we see how extreme God's love is. Remember this the next time you feel discouraged, abandoned, or too timid to undertake some new endeavour. For Jesus is still Immanuel — He is still "God with us."
