The truly great news is that God is not a distant God, a God to be feared and also stayed clear of, a God of vengeance, however a God that is relocated by our pains and also takes part in the fullness of the human battle … God is a caring God. This indicates, firstly, that God is a God who has actually selected to be God-with-us … As soon as we call God “God-with-us,” we participate in a brand-new partnership of intimacy with him. By calling God Emmanuel, we acknowledge God’s dedication to staying in uniformity with us, to share our pleasures as well as discomforts, to protect as well as shield us, as well as to experience all of life with us. The God-with-us is a close God, a God whom we call our haven, our stronghold, our knowledge, and also, even more intimately, our assistant, our shepherd, our love. We will never ever really know God as a caring God if we do not comprehend with our heart and also mind that “words ended up being flesh and lived amongst us” (John 1:14).
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