God-With-Us: Imagine that God would give us this name! In the history of people and religions, what other god has proclaimed his presence with us? If God Himself had not revealed this name, we could not appropriate it.
Peter's reaction to Jesus--Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man--- is our natural response to the Presence of God. But God, knowing our weakness, Himself becomes our support and strength and holiness--God with us. He covers us with Himself, so that it is no longer "we" that live, as Paul said, but Christ, Who lives in us to the glory of God. Because He first enters our life, we are able to enter His.
No life is too small, too remote, too cold, too hard, too inpenetrable for Him to enter---He began in a cave in Bethlehem, manifesting His Presence to shepherds in a field and to wise men from afar. But to those threatened by His coming, to those who are building a kingdom based on greed, destruction, and violence, He remains hidden, invisible.
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