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One of my favorite songs on Kinship Radio is currently “For God Is With Us<\/em>” by For King and Country.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n There’s a certain grandeur to the music and, at first blush, the lyrics seem very Christmas-like:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n “No room for a king<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n In the third stanza, there’s a beautifully poetic line about heaven and earth being face-to-face and the world is forever changed.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Given the title, I’m waiting and anticipating the name “Immanuel” (God With Us) to come up, but it never does.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Instead, the lyrics swirl together the crucifixion and the resurrection with the incarnation.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And then,<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Can you feel your heart begin to race?<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n Indeed, the world has never been the same since Jesus came as a baby, lived, preached, died, and rose again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n It does make the heart race that God Himself would step down into this troubled, messed-up, broken apart world.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And all because God chose to be with us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n No, wait –He didn’t just choose to be with us, He planned<\/em> it from the creation of the universe. From before time began, He knew He would step into this world that we try to claim as our own and show us, really show us what love truly is.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And in that moment, when past and present and future roared that the King was here amongst us, it was an event of such eternal magnitude that…<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Well, …that even eternity would be changed.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And as I pondered all of this, (because great art is able to make one ponder) it occurred to me that the time when God was with us in the flesh –those 30 years or so– was an amazingly brief period of time in the eternal kingdom of the eternal God, but He had decided that He would not be just with us for that short time, but in<\/em> us for all eternity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n John 14:16-17<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n “And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you.<\/span>\u00a0He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn\u2019t looking for him and doesn\u2019t recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you.” (NLT)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n God in<\/em> us.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Romans 8:10-11<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n “And Christ lives within you, so even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you life because you have been made right with God. The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.” (NLT)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ephesians 1:13-14<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n And now you Gentiles have also heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own\u00a0by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago.\u00a0The Spirit is God\u2019s guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people. He did this so we would praise and glorify him. (NLT)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The guarantee, the seal on the New Covenant written in the blood of Jesus, is the Holy Spirit –God Himself living in us.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n He is indeed to be worshipped and glorified.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And it is that Spirit that we share, that makes us one family, one kin, with the same Father and the same eternal inheritance that multiplies and grows every time another soul is brought into that kingdom by the power of His own Holy Spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n LORD, in your mercy, please pour out your Holy Spirit on the people of the United States of America, that we would be a people of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control, to the glory and honor of the name of Jesus! 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\nNo celebration and no ceremony<\/em><\/span>
\nIn that little town no, nobody would think<\/em><\/span>
\nThis is the story of the coming glory”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
\nCan you see the tide begin to change?<\/em><\/span>
\nWith all of our futures rearranged<\/em><\/span>
\nThe world will never be the same<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n