IMMANUEL
Introduction
When the kings of God’s people had not fulfilled their mission
of guiding the people to God, the prophet Jeremiah announces that God would do
away with them and become himself the shepherd of his people. But he will make
this new beginning through a man, a virtuous shoot of the house of David.
Through him, God would become his people’s integrity, the cause of our
fidelity. In the New Testament, as Matthew tells us, Jesus is this Son of David
through Joseph and Mary and at the same time, God’s own Son. He is indeed “God
our integrity,” and Immanuel, “God-with-us,” Jesus, whose name means “Savior.”