Emmanuel: God With Us

The world wasn't ready. He came full of grace and truth - the Word made flesh, Emmanuel. But the ancient words of prophets and sages before him couldn't prepare the world for the nature of his kingdom. No one knew what to do with him - was he a source of healing to be milked, a source of heresy to be condemned, or something else entirely? The question of the day revolved around this carpenter from Nazareth - but they were asking the wrong question. How people responded to this Nazarene's identity - that was the question whose answer Jesus would draw out. His every act was a ripple in a pond, disruptive and unsettling to foes and friends alike, and revealing the hearts of men even as it fulfilled words written hundreds of years earlier. Like a raging storm, he would not be contained. He would accomplish nothing less than all the Father had sent him for. He is, after all, Emmanuel - God with Us.