videos where a service member who has been overseas surprises their

family by coming home and showing up unexpectedly. If you’re given to

emotion (and even if you are not), you can’t help but be overwhelmed

with how much it means to the family to be reunited. When you love

someone, you want to be near them. Plenty of people today think that God

either doesn’t exist, or that, if He does, He stays far away from us.

But nothing in Scripture presents God as someone who stays distant.

Instead, He is close to us and holding us.  As Revelation opens, Jesus

has some words that still ring in the ears of the church. He holds us

and speaks to us, meaning He knows what is happening in our lives, it

matters to Him, and He has direction to give us for our good.