Because He Will Save!

Matthew 1:21 “She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”

This is a verse that I have read and I have heard read many times, yet it is one that has never captured my full attention like it now does today. Today, as I read these words, the meaning is much more intimate. As I read this verse, I read it as one that is declaring a new, daily reality that God longs for us to live in, and not one that is attached to a story told only at Christmas time. When we read, “… he will save his people from their sins,” it’s a great proclamation of what God was going to and then fulfill for those of us in Christ- you and me! We are His people, the ones that Jesus was coming to save! As I read this verse, I see an immeasurable love that was prompted by a great act of mercy and grace to come and to rescue. What a beautiful hope-filled reality!

God spoke, acted, promised, and fulfilled!

Jesus died, but He defeated death! He completely fulfilled His life’s mission to save us from our sins. “God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?” (Numbers 23:19) God spoke, acted, promised, and fulfilled!
Just imagine our Savior, who came down to breathe life into us and make us new! How gracious God is to take our “mustard seed” of faith and graciously multiply it into something great like saving faith!! What a gift! Jesus truly is the giver of life and in Him is all victory because He came and saved His people from their sins!