Look at the love and forbearance of God today. As we read in Isaiah 7 we see the last thing God promises before a final sentence of destruction is a deliverer. How consistent this is with our Lord's character. From the start, when Adam sinned and blamed God for making it possible to this very day, when we sin we are generally proud of ourselves, casting blame on God. What is God's response? He declares his glory and holiness, explains the just judgment against sin, and then provides forgiveness and protection for his people.
Let us look to this deliverer. His name means "God with us." This is surely a promise of Christ the savior, come to be the very God of very God, but entirely man, only without sin. He becomes subject to the curse of sin which will curse him to death. And being the perfectly sinless one who is also perfectly and entirely human, his death is able to accomplish what the death of Adam and billions of other humans since that time has not accomplished - he has taken the penalty of sin and death and died as the representative man who was to die when Adam sinned.
During this season of Advent let us look to the coming of Christ, come to save the world from sin. Rejoice and be glad in this expectation!
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