God Is With You!
"Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign:
Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a
Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.
Isaiah 7: 14
A father reassures his teenage daughter about her first solo
airplane trip: “I’ll be with you all the way to the gate, and the
flight attendants will be with you after that. Then Grandma
will be with you when you arrive.”
“With you” happens a lot in this life, but there is always a
starting point and a stopping point. “With you” never lasts
forever in the human realm.
But in the heavenly realm, it does! The name given to
the Messiah in the Old Testament was Immanuel, which
in Hebrew meant “God with us,” a name confirmed at
the birth of Jesus (Matthew 1:23).
When the writer to the Hebrews wanted to convey God’s
omnipresence, he quoted God’s words to Joshua on the
eve of Israel’s entrance into the Promised Land: “I will
not leave you nor forsake you” (Joshua 1:5).
Jesus even told His disciples He would be with
them “to the end of the age” (Matthew 28:20).
You were not alone yesterday; you are not
alone today; you will not be alone tomorrow.
Jesus is Immanuel—God with you.
