As a child I sometimes watched a religious broadcast on our black and white TV called “You Never Walk Alone.” Whatever the topic of the day, the Rev. Reuben K. Youngdahl always returned at the show's conclusion to the theme of God’s abiding presence, saying in a deep reassuring tone, “Remember, you never walk alone.”
Sometimes it is enough just to know we are not alone. “Emmanuel“ is the name for Jesus that means “God with us.” To be with us means God is present where we are. It means He is on our side. It means He is for us. “If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things” (Romans 8:31-32).
I remember this as well from my childhood! In fact it is holding me together right now facing a paranoid demented mother.
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