“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’).” These were Isaiah’s words many years before the first Christmas, and in his parenthetical statement, he gives us great hope.

Dwell on this statement for a moment. God is with us. Because of Christmas, the Lord is with us. He hasn’t left us to fend for ourselves, rather he is walking with us now and giving us an eternal hope. The Bible reminds us this hope isn’t going away. It is not going to perish, spoil, or fade. It is not impacted by the ebb and flow of political parties. It is an eternal hope that will stay.

And, this hope is the result of Isaiah’s words being fulfilled on that first Christmas so many years ago.

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