Emanuel - God is with us

Emanuel

‘For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace’ Isaiah 9:6

When I went to college, I played the bassoon in the orchestra. We played excerpts from Handel’s Messiah. I was on the second level of risers with the tympani on the third level. Each syllable of Wonderful, Counselor, and Mighty God received a blow from the percussionist. The sound went through our feet before it went to the other side of the auditorium.

You might refer to God as a shape shifter. He can appear in any form that He wants. He made himself to be born of a woman, but she had no earthly means of conceiving the Child. When Jesus was on earth, He may not have possessed all of the attributes of Everlasting Father, He was killed on the cross so that we could have a chance to get to heaven – that is why so many people reject Him as the Savior – God with us because He did not come with all of His power but He most certainly filled all the rest of the titles.

Mr Monkey and Multiplication

Here is a fun way to learn times tables. Mr Monkey shows you the answers and then rapidly removes the answer ans expects your short term memory to remember the answer - if you cannot remember, he will show you the answer again.

Jesus and you

‘Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted’ Isaiah 53:4

Turning you life over to Jesus, does not mean that you will have a problemless life, it does not mean that every thing will go your way, it does mean that you will be given problems and situations that you and God can go through. We know this, because He has already gone through and suffered your problem for you. He will never give you something that you cannot get through. Now do not go and ask Him to make you strong; thinking that if you go through something it will make you stronger – Yes that is true you will be made stronger but He has given you just enough troubles to go through, at just the right problem level, don’t ask Him to make it harder – you might give up.

Keep your eyes focused on Jesus – read every day, pray all the time but especially pray at morning and at night on your knees when you can have just you and Jesus time. Pray for your friends – pray for your enemies (that is a hard one).

I am reminded on something I read about a picture of a person so covered with holes that when the picture was held up to the light, Jesus shown through.