God is with us in all things

God is with us in all things.

That means every single thing. 

That includes the significant as well as the ordinary.

It includes our family, friends, work, our finances, our spiritual life and our health. 

Everything.

There is no aspect of our life that God's not willing to cover.

There is no season of our soul where God's not fully present.

Before God's son left his disciples to return to heaven, he reassured them that he would be with them always, even to the end of the world. He was speaking to all of his followers, including us.

God's son also promised that he would send God's spirit to them. That Spirit would dwell with them and instruct them and help them understand what God's son had told them. God's Spirit would guide them, even giving them the words to speak when they didn't have them.

God's son was faithful to speak what God had given him. He was the perfect embodiment of God's word and God's Spirit. So, when God said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.” God's son was the perfect fulfillment of that promise.

So take heart. God is with us! (Emmanuel, the name we recognize especially during Christmas season, can be translated, "God is with us.")

God's son said he came to us so that his followers would have life, in abundance.

Since God's son was speaking the Eternal One's word, he was also speaking out a promise of reassurance to all who would receive it. He not only promised that God would never leave us or forsake us, but that we would be given life, both on earth and beyond it. And that life, both on earth and afterwards, would be marked with abundance.

Abundance in the sense of foundational, unfaltering faithfulness. Abundance of mercy and grace enough to wash away any sin. Abundance of wisdom. In fact the apostle James encouraged everyone to ask God if they needed wisdom, and God would generously give it to them. Abundance of understanding of spiritual principles, by way of God's spirit dwelling within it. That means a rich inheritance for our soul! Abundance of healing, in fact, through the example of God's son, we know that it is God's desire to heal all diseases.

Abundance of strength, having it renewed to the point of rising up on eagle’s wings when we wait on God. Abundance of emotional stability, founded in God's unchanging, never-ending, unconditional love for us.

All of these things are found in abundance in God.

There is no lack in God's kingdom. And the kingdom is happening now.

When God's son responded to his followers’ request to teach them how to pray, he told them: "Pray your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven."

God's son was encouraging them, reminding them that we can actually pray for the fruit of God's kingdom to be evident in our life. 

Today. 

At this moment. 

Because God's will is to be with us in all things.

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