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God Is With Us!!!

Would you like to know what one of God's greatest desires for us is?  It is to fill His people with His Spirit so that others around us will recognize His powerful presence in us.  The presence of Christ in the life of a believer should be quite obvious.  When the Spirit of almighty God fills us, we should not be able to go on living as we did before.  We should want to live our life for the glory of almighty God in us.   We should have such a desire to live and serve our Savior that we can't ignore His presence in our life, and that presence should be seen by others.  Others should see Christ through us!

"This is what the Lord Almighty says: "In those days ten men from all languages and nations will take firm hold of one Jew by the hem of his robe and say, 'Let us go with you, because we have heard that God is with you.'" Zechariah 8:14.

  God used Zechariah the prophet to tell His people that His presence in them ought to make a difference in their lives.  If His people walked closely with Him, other people from every language and every part of the world would hear that they were a people who knew God.  People would come from every nation on earth to find the true God among His people.  If the people saw a child of God, they would have such a desire to be with them, because in so doing, they would be with God.  God gave the picture of ten men clinging to one believer hoping to find God as an illustration of what the presence of God in the life of another should look like.

  Are people in your life drawn to you?  Do others around you long to be with you?  Christ's presence should be so evident in our life that people all around us would desire to be with us!  They should want their children to be around our children because our children are being raised with a godly influence.  Employers should desire to have us in their workplaces; people should be seeking us out to be their leaders because they know us as someone of integrity before God.

  We should not want the presence of God in our life so that we would have the places of honor and power, or to have fame incomparable.  We should desire the presence of God in our life to change us and draw us near to Him in relationship because of His love for us and our love for Him, but also so that same love and presence would draw others near to Him through us!  To many in the world, we might just be the closest to Christ that they have ever been.   What if our life does not reflect what we confess we believe in?  How will others around us perceive Christ?

  Friends, our lives and our homes ought to be a magnet for people as they sense God's presence with us and our families.  The more we allow Christ to make His presence evident in our lives, the more people will draw near to us and find Him.  If people are not drawn to us but shun us and do not desire our presence, we should examine ourselves and ask if we are really reflecting what we say we believe.  If we say we love Christ, our lives ought to be testaments of that confession!  Is Jesus with you today?

May God Richly Bless You Today!! H Trent!

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