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Immanuel, God With Us

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“Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son,

and they will call him ‘Immanuel,’ which means ‘God is with us.’” 

Matthew 1:23 (NLT)

The name Immanuel bears witness to a personal Savior. Jesus came to this broken world to fellowship with humanity on an intimate level. God sent prophets, but the world did not heed them. He sent His Spirit upon certain judges and prophets but the Israelites failed to stay true to God. So God sent His beloved Son, Jesus.

Jesus, Immanuel, God with us – not just for a time, not simply when we need His help, but a Savior who walks beside us every second of every day. We don’t need a Creator who distances Himself from His creations, leaving humanity to fumble about here on earth. We don’t need a God who overpowers us and dictates our every move. We don’t need an impassive God who shrugs at our antics, nor a God who destroys His creations the instant they object to His will.

We need a God who stays right beside us through the good and the bad, in every blessing and every heartache, through every season and in every second of the day, through every valley and on every mountaintop. We need a God who fights for us, who displays His strength when we’re in the midst of a battle. We need a God who isn’t stingy but One who pours out His mercies and His grace upon us every morning, who piles good things into our laps, and advocates for us before the throne of God. Most of all, we need a God who forgives our sins, wipes the slate clean, restores our fellowship with Him, and offers us eternal life.

Immanuel: God’s answer to the lonely, the outcast, the shunned, the rejected, the ostracized. Immanuel: God’s promise that we will never be alone. Immanuel: God before us, behind us, beside us, within us, and for us – it doesn’t get any more personal than that.

Thought: “If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: ‘God with us.’” – John F. MacArthur

Excerpt from The Light Has Come: Daily Readings for the Christmas Season

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Born to an American father and a British mother, Renée Srch grew up in France where she obtained her French Baccalaureate. She attended IBME in Switzerland, graduating with a degree in Missions and Theology. She is a wife, a mother to three boys, and a critter mom to two rescue dogs and fourteen rescue cats. Renée has led and taught writing workshops through the Ozarks Chapter of American Christian Writers and is currently a member of the Springfield Writer’s Guild and Sleuth's Ink, in Springfield, Mo. Renée has published thirteen books under her given name. She also writes suspense novels under pen name R.J. Dawkins. She writes across genres and for all age groups. Her brand is Wholesome Books for the Whole Family. Besides her own books, she has contributed to four Chicken Soup for the Soul books, two anthologies, and published numerous magazine articles. She has received several awards, among which was an award from Writer’s Digest for her personal essay, Treasures from the Sea, and Global Library Award and Book Cover Award for Miracle Moments; Helping the Rescued Become the Rescuers. Her children’s book, It’s Dark in the Ark, was a number one bestseller on Amazon. You can learn more about her work at www.ReneeVajkoSrch.com, https://www.facebook.com/ReneeVajkoSrch