God With Us

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Since I was just a little girl I’ve loved God. It was at a tender age I accepted Christ as my Savior, and still there are many things I do not know about God. A few years ago I had arrived at a place where I thought I had some real answers about God and His ways.

But when our son was diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer and did not receive the miraculous intervention we had prayed for and expected, I realized I no longer had all the answers. I only had one answer ~ Jesus Christ.

I suspect that you, too, have questions about God.

  • Why do the innocent suffer?
  • Why do bad things happen to godly people?
  • Why am I alone?
  • Why does God intervene in some situations and not others?

What if you got the answer to what I call the big question? Would it be enough to satisfy you? I’m not sure the answer to why my beautiful son, Andrew, was not healed would change anything for me or my husband or Andrew’s big brother and big sister.

In preparing to speak one week before the 2nd anniversary of our son’s passing on December 15, 2009, the Holy Spirit inspired me with a passage from Matthew 1:23.

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel, which is translated God with us.”

God with us. Just three little words but what great and eternal impact in three little words. God with us. You see, “God with us” assures us that God enters into life with us. He does life with us.

Despite the answers to the hard questions that we do not have, all we really need to know about God exists in the name Immanuel ~ God with us. The only question we really need answered is, “God, are You with us? God are You with me?”

I hope this short excerpt from my Christmas message will be a help to you.

 

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  • http://www.peaceforthejourney.com elaine @ peace for the journey

    Searching for that “place” as the new year emerges.

    Great encouragement, Melanie. Thanks!

    peace~elaine

  • http://www.troyerslovinglife.blogspot.com kirstin

    Beautiful post…when my mom passed away 7 years ago after a 5 year battle with Cancer I was faced with believing two truths. I decided that even though I prayed for healing and it didn’t come, I remember sitting in the bathroom at the hospital and saying “God, you still have an opportunity to heal her, but if not I still know that you are Good, all the time, and that it is still your desire to heal”. I don’t believe He gave her cancer, or even “let” cancer attack her body. I don’t bother to ask why she wasn’t healed, I just keep believing and knowing that He is the God who heals and He is good all the time.

  • http://gg-notesonthejourney.blogspot.com Glenda Childers

    Thank you for sharing “God with us” in such a personal loss.

    Fondly,
    Glenda

  • http://www.hmmwhattoputhere.blogspot.com Kelly

    You shine so bright!

  • Peggy Morris

    I’m so glad He is always with us, Melanie. Thanks for the WONDERFUL reminder. I love you!

  • http://www.sassygranny.blogspot.com Kathleen Flanagan

    I love your heart AND your message! Can we hear it enough?

    In recent years I have begun to understand more fully what it means to have more of Him and less of me. It’s not even more of the things He does, or the answers He provides. Just Him.

    A blessed Christmas to you & yours,
    Kathleen

  • http://this-littlelight.blogspot.com/ Trudy

    You are beautiful as always Melanie, and your message too. Immanuel! God with us…2,000 years ago in a dirty, stinky manger…living in this dirty, stinky world with us, and still with us today. Such a comfort!

    God bless you and your family of 5 this Christmas season!
    Trudy

  • http://shortybearsplace.blogspot.com/ Denise

    Thanks for the reminder my friend, love you.

  • http://melaniedorsey.com Melanie

    Thank you for reminding me of that, Leslie.

  • http:letajoykeepyou.blogspot.com Leslie

    He said He goes to prepare a place for us, “and if it were not so, I would have told you.” I always remember that was His answer to me when I asked Him to please be real, on the day Andrew died. When I asked Him if heaven was really real. Immanuel. Sometimes I need to be reminded that He is with me, when the pain and the grief become too much to bear. May He be continue to be Immanuel for you all, as well.