Soon after he was born Mary put her newborn to her breast and fed him.

Jesus

Emmanuel--God with us

Jesus was God in flesh, God "with skin on" is what I tell little kids in church. God robed himself in flesh. He made himself needy, hungry and small. He made himself as needy as any newborn. The Christ-child was born as any baby is born.

The moment air filled his little lungs for the first time, he let out a painful cry and shivered in the cold night air that must have been in that stable. Soon his mother wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in the manger. He needed his mother and he needed Joseph.

By being born of a woman God infused himself so much with humanity that he could not have stayed alive as a human without milk! He fully entrusted himself to a young Jewish girl named Mary.

Do you realize the power that is in this story?

God lived among us and will forever be a part of his creation. His intense love for us is proven over and over through Scripture.

When we say the name of Jesus we are saying Jehovah has become my Savior. The Messiah!

Ponder this for awhile....when we are baptized in Jesus' name, we have the blood of the God that became a Man who purchased our salvation washing our sins away.

Even Mary knew who her unborn child was......Luke 1:46 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.

"God my Savior" is another way of saying the Christ child or Emmanuel. Isaiah, whose writings Mary understood declared,
I, [even] I, [am] the LORD; and beside me [there is] no saviour. (Isa. 43:11)

She knew what she was a part of; she knew who the babe was!

The Jews knew there was but one God and she knew that she was with child of that one God. Duet. 6:4

Glory to God in the Highest and on Earth Peace, Good will toward men!