Bethlehem is the birth city of Christ and He is our Emmanuel, The Lord with us.
Where I grew up in the Gaza strip, we faced a lot of difficulty. It was especially difficult being a child and seeing so many attacks and conflict, greater than my mind could think or explain.
It was in this time that I experienced the Lord as Emmanuel, God with me. The reality that He knows what will happen in every minute and in every second. The reality that He is our peace, and that every hair on our head truly is counted and He knows when it will fall.
“But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.”
Matthew 10:30
He really does know what we face and what we will face. We are not alone in this life, Emmanuel the Lord is with us. Without a doubt, evil exists in this world! But He is sovereign, He is our Emmanuel. Because He is sovereign, God knows every detail before we ask Him our requests. He is God with us. Our Emmanuel.
“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel” (which means, God with us).
Matthew 1:23