The Bible says about Jesus, “They will call Him Immanuel, which means God with us.” [Matthew 1:23] In the 1960’s, when a Soviet cosmonaut became the first human to leave earth and go into space, he famously reported that he had visited the heavens and had not found God. C.S. Lewis responded by saying that this was like Hamlet going into the attic of his castle and looking for Shakespeare. How could Hamlet, a creation of Shakespeare, ever hope to find him? Lewis pointed out that the only way would be for Shakespeare to write himself into Hamlet’s story. Christmas is the infinite God writing himself into our story. It’s God with us in our joys and sorrows, pain and loss. It’s God with us in a way we can know and have access to. Aren’t you thankful today that when we couldn’t find God, God found us? Because of Jesus, we can experience God’s constant faithfulness, not just in joys, but in sorrow and loss. Today, you can be a witness to his with-ness.

Matthew 1:23 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).”