"We are the clay and You our potter" Isa 64:8

Emmanuel is the very last thing that God should be.  Hear me out. He is Almighty God, the one who breathed out the stars and calls them by name. He is the one who upholds the entire universe by the word of his power and in him all things consist. He is so Holy, so pure that God tells Moses that no man can look on God and live (Exodus 33:20). We see in Exodus that God demonstrated his power by enabling the Israelites to leave Egypt. He shows His power over all the Earth by commanding storms, insects, plagues and even death. For He is the very One who gives life. After God brings them out of Egypt, He gave them a covenant, a binding promise that required they worship Him alone for he is a holy God and his people should also be holy (Leviticus 11:45). Yet, what do the Israelites do? At their first opportunity they start worshiping another god that they made themselves. And how similar are we? How easily do we forget the God who has shown Himself powerful and mighty in our lives? How q...

[1Co 13:1-8 ESV] 1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.   Outside our home the oak and maple trees are beginning to change from vibrant greens to yellows, reds and orange. I am tempted to begin dreading the hours of ra...