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God With Us
The Lord replied, "My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest" (Exodus 33:14).
“Emmanuel” – ‘God with us’. Let’s consider what the idea of God being ‘with’ us really means. What can we learn from the many instances of this phrase in the Old and New Testaments, and how should this truth manifest itself in our daily lives? The idea of God being ‘with’ us is one of the most common and yet one of the richest expressions in the Bible, running like a thread through the Old and the New Testaments. In Exodus, God promises to be ‘with’ Moses and then ‘with’ Joshua. God was also ‘with’ the kings and judges of Israel, as well as ‘with’ the great prophets like Isaiah and Jeremiah and Ezekiel. The theme of God being ‘with us’ also runs through the psalms and is found most notably in Psalm 23 “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for you are with me...”
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