GOD IS WITH US

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me…”
Psalm 23: 4 (KJV)

“Behold, a virgin…shall bring forth a Son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel,
which being interpreted is, God with us.”
St Matthew 1: 23 (KJV)

JESUS!
“She shall bring forth a Son, and thou shalt call His name JESUS! He shall save His people from their sins.”

EMMANUEL!
“They shall call His name Emmanuel, which is being interpreted, God with us.”
God with us!
God is with us!
God is with us in Jesus to save us from our sin.
In fact, God is always with us, with you and with me.
Say it, “God is always with me!”
“God sees all we do! He overheard what you were whispering! He saw what you did when you thought all heads were bowed and every eye was closed. He saw! And where men and women are impressed by ‘what we do,’ God looks into our minds and into our hearts to determine ‘why we do.’

God is always with us.

God’s abiding presence, His constancy of oversight and companionship are not for the sake of JUDGEMENT, but for LOVE’S SAKE!
It is motivated by love for us, love toward us.
“He never sleeps, He never slumbers, He watches over us by night and by day.”

God is always with us!

John 16: 13 tells us that it is the Spirit of God that gives us the ability to discern between truth and the lesser realities to which we give ourselves that carry with them major consequences.

Some of those lesser realities are:

• WEALTH! “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and to lose his own soul?” (St Matthew 16: 26)
• BEAUTY! “All flesh is grass and the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass witherth, the flower fadeth:” (Isaiah 40: 6)
• SECURITY! “The earth is the Lord’s, the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein; for He hath founded it…He hast established it.” (Psalm 24: 1, 2)

We lose ourselves in empty pursuits, oblivious to the presence of God, blind to the truths of God. Yet, God does not abandon us. In Jesus, those who are the people of God are assured of the comfort and the protection and the advocacy of God Himself.

“God was in Christ Jesus, reconciling the world unto Himself!”
Imagine that! Behind the person of Jesus, born of the Virgin Mary, is the face of God, the welcome embrace of the arms of God, extending tender mercies, loving kindness and great compassion!

“O come, let us adore Him, O come let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him, Christ, the Lord.”

AMEN!

Clement W. Fugh
Candidate for Episcopal Service – 2012

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