God, Emmanual with us.

 Amen. God With Us—the promise that turns every place into holy ground and every moment into a potential encounter. Here is a renewed celebration of that eternal truth.

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With Us

Not just a God above, beyond, afar,

A distant watchful eye upon a star—

ButGod With Us, a breath within the room,

Dispelling every shadow,every gloom.

You are the Word that took on skin and bone,

The Love that made our brokenness Your own.

In hunger,thirst, in laughter, and in tears,

You’ve hallowed all our ordinary years.

“The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).(Matthew 1:23)

You are with us in the quiet and the crowd,

Your presence clear,though never spoke aloud.

You are with us in the doubt,the fear, the plea,

The very life that pulses,“I am with thee.”

“And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”(Matthew 28:20)

No valley is too deep, no night too long,

No weakness too profound,no wrong too strong,

To separate us from this holy theme:

God With Us—more than hope,more than dream.

So here, in this now, we anchor and we stand,

Held firmly in Your ever-present hand.

We are not alone.We never were.

God With Us—our promise and our surety.

Hallelujah. Immanuel.

You are here.

Amen.