It was the final choir rehearsal of the year, in preparation for my church’s Christmas Eve candlelight service. As is our custom, the group met at our director’s home for a pot-luck dinner, followed by rehearsal.
It was challenging to hear in the reconfigured living room—with all the background noise. As our leader gave instructions, she commented that the true meaning of Christmas was about Immanuel–God with Us. I knew what she said, but here’s what I heard.
Immanuel dot with us
Wow, God has a website?! Immanuel.withus ✝️
This makes me think of how almost anything can be instantly found (on the internet) and ordered these days. We simply search, find, and buy. Yet I’m old enough to remember when my mom ordered out of an old-fashioned catalog. She completed and mailed off an order form and then waited, not a few days but a few weeks, for the merchandise to arrive.
From the fullness of His grace we have all received one blessing after another.
John 1:16 (NIV)
Kind reader, how wonderful it is to have instant access to God the Father through Jesus Christ! Hebrews chapter eleven speaks of the heroes of our faith who looked forward to the birth of God’s son but did not see it. And here we are, thousands of years later, knowing that Jesus came in the flesh, died for our sins, came back to life again, and now sits at God’s right hand in heaven.
For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility.
Ephesians 2:14 (NIV)
Thank you for reading. 🙏❤️Prayers and love.
Davids Daily Dose 
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