All right then, the Lord himself will give you the sign.
Look! The virgin will conceive a child!
She will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel
(which means ‘God is with us’).
Isaiah 7:14 NLT
The Lord himself will give you the “sign,” something to see, touch, hear. A baby like us, but not like us. A baby who is “God with us!”
“So God throws open the door of this world—and enters as a baby.
As the most vulnerable imaginable.
Because He wants unimaginable intimacy with you.
What religion ever had a god that wanted such intimacy with us
that He came with such vulnerability to us?
What God ever came so tender we could touch Him?
So fragile that we could break Him?
So vulnerable that His bare, beating heart could be hurt?
Only the One who loves you to death.”
Ann Voskamp