For unto to us....

I can remember the first time I sang Handel's Messiah. I thought this was the most majestic music I had ever heard. The truth is the first time I heard the Messiah I was singing it!
When we sang the great chorus "For unto us a child is born ..." something reverberated in my soul. Could it be true that God had loved me so much that he gave me a ... child?
I didn't realize it at the time but that phrase was right out of the book of Isaiah and his prophecies about Jesus found in chapter 9. 700 years before God came in flesh a divine rescue was planned and declared by Isaiah. God is the master planner!
God knew my need before I did. God knew my need before I was ever born. God is the master planner. I am captured by the love of God that would compel Him to leave heaven and dwell among creation to suffer and die in my place. Unto me a child is born, unto you. This is the love of God, Wow!