| God Is With UsMarch 2010*PRAISE FORHIS NAME----IMMANUEL* What a beautiful name for my Savior, Immanuel--God with us. In it are wrapped two comforting truths. The first is that Jesus is God. Eliminate that truth and what would that baby mean to me? He'd be just another baby, cute, no doubt, like all of them. And what would that figure on the cross 33 years later mean to me? He'd be just another innocent victim nailed there by some miscarriage of justice. No, he must be God, or else he can't be my Savior. If he's not God, then his blood could hardly purify me from all sin. The second truth in his name Immanuel? He's "God with us". What a comforting thought. God's not far off, distant in the heavens, glancing at us from across the miles. He's with us in our flesh, on our globe, under our sin. He's with me in my sin, not to cause them or share in them but to save me from them. He's already paid for every one of them. He's with me in my sorrows and trials. He knows what they are like. He suffered many of them also and knows just how to help me with them. He's with me in my service to him. Though I often get weary and seem to take three steps forward then five steps backward in my efforts, he's there to keep me trying. What a name, Immanuel, my Savior-God has, one that deserves my praise all my days!
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