God With Us

Emmanuel - God with us. That to me is a beautiful name and meaning. Do we really believe that God is with us? I do! But it is hard in this world to find him. Christians are to live by faith and not by sight. Which is a crazy idea to those who don't believe in a living creator.

Tonight in class we talked about "persistence", staying in belief until the very end. Squeezing tight to the rope of faith till the last moment in time. Seeing our divine path until it's our time to go away to the paradise created for us. We need to believe no matter what life brings us. Are we persistent enough to hang in there? Can we truly find God in this life? Many have gone other routes to find satisfaction in this world. People who were baptized and claiming to be in Christ. They just gave up and found another path to follow.

Many have wrapped themselves up in this election way to much. When people say Obama is the "Messiah" have lost their hope in God and have completely put their hope in the

"seen" instead of the "unseen." I believe most Christians have a good imagination to believe in something unseen. They see something that others can't, we see a future that is beyond our imagination. We believe that there has to be a reason why we exist. I look at the earth and just stand in amazement at it all. It's so complex to think about how it all was created. That I have to know and trust that there is something bigger than me behind it all. The other day I looked my arm and I just thought about the miracles that flow through our bodies every day. The human body is amazing to think about the unseen that is working to keep us living. We can't do anything to tell it to keep working, we just believe in our Creator that he will keep things running and pumping in our bodies.

We see miracles every moment in our lives we just don't think about them very much. God is with us. Don't fret about things and remember we who believe have a reward after this life. Live for the now and let the future take care of itself. Take on the world as if you had a thousand angels behind you at all times. Reach out to the unseen and faithfully take it on. Faith in God and his Son will be our greatest strength. No matter how beaten we are in this world acknowledgement of God is exactly what he wants us to do. Give Him the praise he deserves and live in His grace. Enjoy life, for God is with us.