Immanuel

The Last time John had seen him the "Baptist" had baptized him and now for he had been gone for fourty days now....but now he has returned, gaunt and wirey but it's the change in his eyes that you notice the most..."what had he seen out there in the wilderness"? You are releived you didn't know if you'd see him again and there is something uniquely powerful about this man whom the 'Baptist' calls the lamb. He is only with you a few days and then he prepares to leave...you are compelled you cannot let him go this time and at a distance you follow. He stops asking you what is it that you want and in that moment you realize...to be with him. He says come follow me. It is in that moment that the truth of His life "the sent one" converges with the truth of your life "my disciple" His purpose, your purpose co mingled and running down from a cross to the ends of the earth. God with us, Immanuel...to live among us that the compelling nature of his coming to tell us of our long lost father, to show us the way home. And we behold his glory...and we will be like him and we know it...So we must behold him, long to be with him and follow him...home.