Immanuel

O come, O come, Immanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear.

Think about it. For thousands of years, using his wit and charm, man had tried to be friends with God. And for thousands of years they had let God down more than they had lifted him up. They’d done the very thing they promised they’d never do. It was a fiasco. Even the holiest of the heroes sometimes forgot whose side they were on. Adam, clothed and hiding from the Creator, Moses throwing his staff and a temper tantrum took matters into his own hands. King Saul looking into a crystal ball for the will of God; David caught looking, lusting, wanting, taking, and murdering, and a nation of chosen ones who killed God’s prophets and worshiped other gods over and over and over.

And so after 400 years of God’s apparent silence in Jewish history, He makes His loudest and most profound statement. He comes to be with His people. (Think of the absurdity!!) He comes to bring His kingdom. He comes to fulfill all He has revealed about Himself and more. He is Creator, Lord, Hope, Light, Life and He has come to the very world that will still reject Him!!!!

Rejoice! Rejoice!
Immanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.