Few can express truth and insight more eloquently than the great preacher of the 1800s, Charles Spurgeon.
Here he contemplates the implications of what it means that Christ is our Immanuel:
“Immanuel, God with us.”
It is hell’s terror.
Satan trembles at the sound of it . . .
Let him come to you suddenly,
and do you but whisper that word,
“God with us,”
back he falls,
confounded and confused . . .
“God with us”
is the laborer’s strength.
How could he preach the gospel,
how could he bend his knees in prayer,
how could the missionary go into foreign lands,
how could the martyr stand at the stake,
how could the confessor own his Master,
how could men labor if that one word were taken away? . . .
“God with us”
is eternity’s sonnet,
heaven’s hallelujah,
the shout of the glorified,
the song of the redeemed,
the chorus of the angels,
the everlasting oratorio
of the great orchestra of the sky.
–Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of the Old Testament, III:430.
Hallelujah and amen!
Merry Christmas to you all!
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