Immanuel
What a name! What a description! Of course, the fact of Christ’s humanity is a difficult concept. I’m glad we can accept by faith the things hard to understand. I hear of people wrestling or struggling with truths of God’s Word. I think what we struggle with is accepting something that doesn’t match with our perceptions. It’s hard to admit our perceptions may be wrong. But then that is all we have, what we perceive and what we believe. So it comes down to trust. “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding”. Proverbs 3:5
Now back to “Immanuel”. It seems to me that “God with us” is what Job had in mind in speaking of God in Job 9:32-35.
“For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. Neither is there any daysman between us, that might lay his hand upon us both. Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me: Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.”
Doesn’t Christ fit the idea of the daysman in verse 33? He is the one who can (and does) lay his hands on both of us. Job longed for this One. We have Him, and according to Matthew 28:20, Romans 8:35-39, and Hebrews 13:5 we always will.
Immanuel!
