God with us
It is Christmas time and we are thinking of Jesus’ birthday and the story about God becoming a human. His name is Emanuel for He really is God with us. With us here and now is not just a saying it is real, He is with us.The mystery of the coming is "How could God Become a Man?" In the beginning this same God made Adam as a full-grown mature man in the likeness of God, able to think and do and act and want and decide all by himself. But now at Christmas time we see a baby unable to even speak, dependent on his mother and others for everything except breathing. How different from the adult mature first Adam!
Jesus as a baby was also in danger of being killed by Herod. And again unlike the first Adam, this One whom the Bible calls the last Adam, had to learn everything before He became as mature as Adam. He learned obedience to his parents, he learned to speak and play with and get along with younger siblings and even little sisters as different as they are. As a human he grew up and matured in the same way that we do except that He was never inclined to do wrong, He never sinned. The Bible says He was tempted in every way just as we are and yet He was without sin. Actually He did not inherit sinfulness as we did from our fathers, for only God Himself was His father, that is what the virgin birth means, although his brothers and sisters who had Joseph for their father were sinners needing a Saviour.
Imagine it, yes realize it and believe it. Jesus is God and He experienced all the temptations you and I have experienced yet He never sinned. Then He became the sinless sacrifice for all our sins so that He could be God with us and we can be with Him for ever. Salvation by his grace alone. And not just salvation from the penalty of sin, but because He was tempted and sinless we can live and overcome sin each day like He did, free from the power of sin.