When a child is born, there is a sense of all the possibilities that their life can hold. All of their days lay before them unwritten and full of potential. Many know this feeling from their own experience even though they would struggle to put it into words that fully express it. Can you imagine how much harder it is to put into words what it would mean for God Himself to come to earth as a baby? Hundreds of years before Jesus was born, a prophet gave it a shot. He used some terms packed with meaning to describe this birth and the person who would come. We see a glimpse of that truth in the Gospels and in the life that Jesus lived. We see it more fully in the death that He died and in His resurrection. But there’s more to the story than even that. Jesus even said as much when He left. He told His followers that He would come back. What does all of this mean? Let’s look at the words of the prophet and try to get our heads and hearts around what they mean as we celebrate Jesus this season.