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The Father's Business Podcast
The Father's Business Podcast
Devotional-Immanuel God With Us
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The name that changes everything isn’t complicated. Immanuel tells the truth about God’s heart: He moves toward us, not away, and He chooses closeness over spectacle. We trace the promise from Isaiah’s sign to John’s thunderous opening, and we sit with the wonder that the One who made all things stepped into a body, a family, and a world that wears both joy and pain.
We explore how the Word who was with God and was God became the light that no darkness can overcome, not as a distant force but as a person who knew hunger, thirst, weariness, and tears. That choice matters for everyday life. When Jesus heals, forgives, and welcomes, He shows the Father’s extravagant love in motion. When He enters our grief and our celebration, He dignifies our humanity and anchors our hope. Emmanuel is not a seasonal idea. He remains with us now, steady in sorrow and bright in joy.
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The Father's Business was founded by Sylvia Gunter to encourage people to a deeper relationship with God. Thank you for listening to this devotional. Therefore, the Lord Himself will give you a sign. The Virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and will call him Emmanuel. Isaiah 7 14. What's your favorite characteristic or name of God? It's an almost impossible question to answer because there are so many attributes of God I adore. But if I'm pressed to pick just one, it would be Emmanuel, God with us. And that one simple name is the depth that is beyond our comprehension. A mixture of majesty and intimacy that is unmatched. The majesty of Emmanuel is described this way in John 1, 1 through 5. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him, all things were made. Without him, nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. All that majesty chose to become intimately acquainted with us by humbling himself into the confines of a human body so that he could dwell among us and show us the grace and truth of who the Father is. Have you ever really thought about an infinite God choosing to spend nine months in the womb of one of his creations? He then spent 33 years experiencing the human experience. Scripture records that he was hungry, thirsty, tired. Jesus experienced every emotion that we have had, great joy and also great sorrow. Jesus could have miraculously appeared on the earth in any way he chose. But he chose to fully know our human experience. Why? So that we might know God fully. This is the gift of Christmas. His life, everything he did and said, was designed to speak of the Father's extravagant love and heart for his people. You may often wish that you could have met Jesus when he walked this earth. How amazing would that have been to look into his eyes and see him smile at you? While we may not have that privilege, Jesus is still Emmanuel. He's still with us. Regardless of what this Christmas brings you, whether it is a sorrow or joy, Jesus knows. And more importantly, he cares. He is still the active expression of the extravagant love that God your Father has for you. He is still here for you. This Christmas may you drink deeply of the truest gift you have ever received. God loves you so much that he will go to any lengths necessary to show you that he is Emmanuel of God with you.
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