Mankind is bound to perpetual loneliness.

"No one understands - me.
No one truly loves - me."

The gap between God's presence
and my opposition to Him is not
bridgeable by me . . .

The first man alone in the garden
is now the 'woman' alone in the universe.

And God solved the isolation of humanity.
The Son of God is born again into the world
when He invades your being with His own life
by a miraculous, mysterious transformation.
"Born again from above."
Christ is born again inside you
and YOU are born again.

And God comes down to be with us,
not as a companion, not even as a partner.
God in the Spirit comes to live with us,
as within us.

Now you are not alone.
The One who loves is within.
Your God is in residence,
in constant and permanent availability!
Not in a garden, a tent, a temple.
IN you.

He walks inside you - not just in the
"mist of the morning," nor in the
'tent of meeting'
but in all your day and living.
He broods within you for all your night.
The Lord God is 'with us'
by the most amazing intimacy . . .
accessible, reachable, knowable!

You and I are now the Temple.
The Place for God - His home on earth.
We who have seen the Son born again
in us, are His earthly Tent,
His resident tabernacle
and together . . . His glorious, holy Temple!

"God is with us" truly, intimately.

Now He literally resides in the body
of those who have received His life,
the very Son of God.

And He came to dwell in a Corporate Body
within us and among us - both!

God has a place now.
We are His manger.
We are the hidden cave
where He is welcomed at last.
We are the body and the Body of
His residence, His place in
this hostile world.

He covers the earth with His 'babes.'
He is building "living stones" into a
magnificent, triumphant temple that
will One-day be revealed as
His majestic dwelling, victorious
not only over His enemy, but over
the creation that mankind spoiled and
over spoiled humanity as well.

And the Father's vast governmental order
will increase until His glory fills the earth.
And God will be visible
to every living soul by the
blazing white presence of the Son of God.

And Jehovah will bring His hidden Throne
from heaven down to earth in a splendid
golden form and He has
come down to be with us
by being IN us.

And God is here.

For I am convinced that neither death,
nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,
nor things present, nor things to come,
nor powers, not height, nor depth,
nor any other created thing,
will be able to separate us
from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39

They shall call His name
IMMANUEL,
which translated means,
"God with us."

Copyright © 2006 Martha Kilpatrick