Immanence, the Source of Eminence

UV 3551/10000 Immanence, the Source of Eminence “Behold, the virgin shall be with child and give birth to a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel”- which, when translated, means, “God with us,” Matthew 1 v 23 Immanence is the source of our eminence. Eminence is a geographic term that means the peak of mountains. It is a metaphor for greatness, extreme experience, massive influence, leadership. Unlike the concept of many that God is present in all including material objects, this uni-verse states that God is present with us, with us who believe in His Son, who came into the world to be with us, died for us, live in us. Immanence or God with us is the source of our power, influence, health, blessings, peace and rejoicing. God is no longer the distant one on the mountain which only Moses could approach. The good news is that He is with us. If He who is absolutely powerful, absolutely loving, absolutely gracious is with us, who or what can be against us. Neither death nor riches nor poverty nor folly nor sin can any longer separate us from God, our Creator, Protector, Redeemer. God, becomes the source of our provision, the source of our victory, the source of our vindication. Since, He is with us, we have no lack. No lack of strength, resources, wisdom, inspiration, hope, significance. No one can be greater than us in terms of strength or power. The enemy, the strong one can no longer play with our lives. He is bound and defeated in Christ. The Son Jesus is the eternal bridge connecting us with God. Using this bridge we can cross the eternal chasm to be with God any time and beyond time in eternity where the sun does not rise or set and there is no need to measure time. Love, power, grace, mercy are available to us without measure or limits through immanence. Since God cannot be contained or limited to our limited faculties and bodies, He fills us and overflows. He replaces “hamartia” or shortcoming or limitations with overflowing or abundance. Only our faith, our ability to see, feel, hear, communicate with the Invisible God sets limits to our human experience of God. Hence, Paul writes, “ Rejoice in the Lord always and again, I say, Rejoice!” Though we delight and rejoice in many things as humans, our highest, most intense and recurring rejoicing is in the Lord, in the faith fact that He is with us. He is no longer far removed from us that we can only imagine Him. He has revealed Himself in His fullness in the person, work and word of Jesus. Like Jesus pointed all His glory back to the Lord God, His Father in heaven, like mountain peaks point upward to the heavens, we point all that we do, all that we are, all that we attain or achieve to the Lord.