God Is With Us by David Jeremiah

Tuesday, December 18 God Is With Us    Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; speak the word, but it will not stand, for God is with us. Isaiah 8:10    Do you have a personal motto? Some families have family shields with mottos expressing their values. Here’s an idea. Whether a motto or simply an awareness you carry within your heart, think of the power of the phrase: “God with us.” That’s the meaning of Immanuel.

Recommended Reading: Isaiah 46:3-4

An old volume of The Family Christian Almanac said: “There is nothing like the consciousness of Immanuel for men that are fighting the battles of life. Give me, of all mottoes, ‘God with me.’ Oh that I might write on my child’s cradle, ‘Immanuel—God with us.’ Oh, that I might write it on the threshold of every child’s entrance into wedded life: ‘Immanuel—God with us.’ Oh that I might write it on the garments that my child wears, so that they should [see] …. the motto, ‘Immanuel—God with us.’ Oh, that I might write it on every book and task. Oh that it might be inscribed on every fear and sorrow—‘God with us.’ Always and everywhere I would have for my motto, ‘Immanuel.’”1    We can endure difficulties in life because God is with us. Immanuel! 1The Family Christian Almanac: 1864 (Boston: American Tract Society, 1864), 24, condensed.