God With Us

Article for December 14, 2025

Matthew 1:24b and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).

For a time and a time God’s first chosen people looked for a savior to come.  This is a story cloned into many fictional odysseys.  A nation looking for a savior and people who try to destroy the savior before salvation can take hold of those who follow the hero of the story.  This (about Jesus the Christ) though is not a story, but a documented history by one and a few who witnessed “God with us.”

This a thirty year walk with man, and a three year walk as our savior, give or take a few is about a true savior not one made up to suit our fancy.  Jesus Christ whom the Jews looked for finally came when many had already fallen into the traps of self-desires.  Some will believe, some will refuse to believe, and some will be afraid to believe.  Jesus came when no one was prepared.

This was a change of life that many would have a hard time grasping and many gleefully welcoming as they knew this day would come.  This answered the question of life that many even now try to criticize.  The God we grew up learning about exists.  Science isn’t the enemy; it is those who try to use science to explain away God that work for the enemy.  After all, God created science.  God created all things, and all things were created by God.

1 John 1:1 1That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life—

Jesus who was with God from the beginning and was God created all things that were created and nothing was created without Him. (John 1).  Here is a true witness that not only saw Jesus Christ but walked, talked and touched Jesus Christ.  That there is a witness and not just one, but many lets us know this is not a story but an account of history.

This history is not something that just happened in the past but a history the plays on into our lives and our future life to come.  Yes, we can believe even though some might not have seen.  Yes, there are those who have seen and those who have witnessed the savior we all are waiting to see again.

We are at a time again when many have fallen away to their own self-desires.  Many who stop believing in the second coming of Christ.  And many who do not believe that the second coming of Christ will end all wickedness and usher all believers into heaven.  Not that all believe in heaven, but one day all will believe in God.  When Jesus comes again all will believe but not all will be saved.  But that is for Jesus to decide, for it is His will not our will.

1 John 1:2 2the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us—

Jesus Christ, God manifested in the form of a man and not just a man but a baby that grew up to be a man, a man of God, a God/man.  We will not see the baby Jesus, but we will see Christ manifested as a man coming down from the clouds.  We will see God the eternal life who was, who is, and who will be, the beginning that has always been and the end that will never be.  I know, now I’m just babbling on.

This is a time and a time; we have waited through many generations.  Though it might seem like a time never to come, it might come sooner than we might think.  Are you prepared, are you ready.  I think most believers would say they are ready, but how many of us are prepared?  Jesus Christ our savior is coming again whether we are ready or not, whether we are prepared or not. 

Jesus is coming and may well be on His way for Jesus Christ is the way, and the truth, and the life.  God gave us His Word, and the Word is the light, and the light, lights the way.  Look every day and every day be prepared.

1 John 1:3–4 3that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed, our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. 4And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.

      Jesus’s death was not a separation, but a call to a fellowship of all believers.  Jesus suffered for our sins and died so that we might have life in Him.  Jesus was resurrected so that we can believe that there is eternal life even Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

      Written by Pastor Curtis A. May