In Jesus we see our humanity as God intended it to be, for he is the true human.   He was continually  turned towards God as the one he called Father. He lived in the fullness of who God is with and for him.  In this true human who was always with God and for God we see what we were made for.   But right at the start of our history we rejected God’s purpose for us.  And we continually rejected his purpose all through our history.  We have turned from God and from our true humanity.   We have lost our way.

Immanuel is God stepping into our history to find us.  And being found we find God in him.   Finding God we find our true selves.   For Immanuel is our true self  in God.  In him we are now with God.    We are as with God as we ever can be for now our lives are hidden with Christ in God.  As those who belong to Immanuel, we are now living within the communal love we were created for.

We can never boast in ourselves as we share in this true human life with God because we have found it only in Immanuel.  And we find it in him only because he has found us.   In Immanuel God is with us.  And in him we are with God just as God intended.