The Answer to All Our Needs

They shall call his name Immanuel; which is, being interpreted, God with us.--Matt. 1: 23.

The great object of the Bible is to reveal the greatness and goodness of God, what He is to us, what He can mean in a human life, what He purposes for man and our world, His activity in behalf of each of us and in human affairs, His adequacy for the needs of the individual and the world's needs--all this coming into clear view in the incarnation, God made manifest in the flesh. The incarnation means the presence of God in the human scene, that He comes into human life. It means Immanuel--God with us.

God with us--the answer to all our needs: Deliverance from sin, strength for our weakness, grace to help in time of trouble, comfort for all our griefs and sorrows, the antidote to all our doubts and fears, emancipation from the thralldom of the grave, assurance of immortality and an eternal home in the Father's house.

There is nothing we need so much as we need God.

The nations need Him. "All the nations that forget God shall be turned back unto Sheol" (Ps. 9: 17). "Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord" (Ps. 144: 15). "God is in the generation of the righteous" (Ps. 14: 5).

The saving influence in any generation is belief in God and the sense of accountability to Him. Only when God is reverenced and obeyed is it possible to secure and maintain personal, social, commercial and political integrity.

Remembrance of God is the well-spring of virtue; forgetfulness of Him, the fountain of vice.

"O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. For He is our God; and we are the people of His pasture" (Ps. 95: 6-7).

It is in His pasture that all our needs are supplied, temporal and spiritual.