Jesus is With You in Every Moment: A Truth to Savor This Year

Erin Ulerich shares this encouragement: Jesus is with you in every moment, no matter what you’re facing today or in the year ahead.

Everyone at my in-laws’ home was sleeping.

Everyone, that is, except my fussy one-month-old and me.

Why do the cries sound louder when we are away from home? I carried her to the room farthest away from the bedrooms, hoping not to wake anyone else.

As we entered the room, lights on the Christmas tree twinkled, and embers glowed, leftovers from the fire my father-in-law built while we opened gifts.

Nudging some balled-up wrapping paper with my foot and making a mental note to pick it up later, I eased myself into the rocking chair. I rocked, and my girl’s crying tapered off, her eyelids growing heavier and heavier as she stopped fighting sleep.

I turned on the TV, volume low, biding time until she finally fell asleep. The show I was halfway watching ended, and literally, at the stroke of midnight, things changed.

Commercials and infomercials abruptly shifted from a warm, cozy Christmas vibe to a New Year, New You theme: exercise equipment, diets, clothes, vacations, cars.

Here I was, still full from Christmas dinner, already being told I needed to get lean and gorgeous.

Just like that, the Christmas season was over, and it was time for the new year.

I experienced whiplash without even leaving the rocking chair! What happened to soaking in and savoring the moment?

If I’m to believe the screen in front of me, there’s no time for that. We just need to plow into the next bright, shiny thing.

No. Thank. You.

Today, as we sit in January, a new year stretching ahead, I want more for you and me.

I want the richness of Emmanuel, God with us. I want us to savor and marinate in this truth before we step into the craziness of the new year.

Jesus is with you: I want us to let this truth soak into our souls until we are satiated, so we can carry it into the year.

Jesus is With You in Every Moment

As you walk into this new year, you do not walk alone.

In celebratory moments, in difficult moments, you do not walk alone.

This isn’t new. We’ve just spent December celebrating Jesus’ coming.

We sang hymns and carols about the wonder of the Word becoming flesh and dwelling among us – O Little Town of Bethlehem, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, O Holy Night, Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus, to name a few.

What’s new is my invitation to keep this truth with you as you walk into the new year.

Please don’t relegate this truth to December, as if it’s not relevant for the other 11 months of the year.

As the world around you shouts about the latest shiny new thing you need in your life, hit the mute button and pause with me.

Savor the truth of Emmanuel, God with us.

Bask in this mystery. We need this mystery because we are, indeed, a weary world in need of hope.

As believers, we walk around as if the weight of the world is literally on our shoulders.

-The weight of our personal worlds.

-The weight of the broken world around us.

The reminder that we are not alone is powerful. It is a thrill of hope to a weary world.

Jesus is with you in every moment of every day.

We carry Christmas into the new year, because we celebrate Christmas with an eye on the entire story.

We celebrate the sweet baby in the manger because He is the suffering Savior on the cross, and the risen Savior who defeated the enemy of our souls out of love for us.

After centuries of waiting, at just the right time, He stepped out of heaven into our broken world, and wrapped Himself in the most vulnerable package.

He did this to rescue His beloved creation from the clutches of brokenness.

Just picture it. After 400 years of silence from God, an angel tells Mary that God with us is about to happen.

This truth is like a beautiful gemstone that we can tilt and watch the light hit in different directions. Emmanuel. God with us, God among us, God accompanying us,

God is in the midst of us. Can you hear the intimacy in these phrases?

Find Peace Knowing Jesus is With You

Jesus walked through this broken world.

-He was affected by the brokenness that affects you and me.

-He felt the emotions we feel. He knows what it’s like to live in this world.

-He took on the sins of the world to purchase freedom for you and me.

-He paid the price for every sin we have and will commit.

There is now no condemnation for those in Christ (Romans 8:1).

This truth calls to us in the middle of our struggles.

Jesus looks on us with compassion and invites us to experience His mercy and grace. (Hebrews 4:15-16)

Jesus is With You Through Every Season

The Christmas story is part of a larger story, a story that began before God said, “Let there be light” at creation.

A story that includes the Garden of Eden, the cross, and the resurrection. A story that is still unfolding.

Jesus came to weave His story into your story and mine. At just the right time, He opens ears to hear His voice, and opens hearts to feel His love. And once He is with us, He never leaves us.

Since He is with us, we are never, ever alone.

Sit with that picture for just a moment. No matter what you are facing. No matter what brokenness raises its ugly head this year.

Jesus is with you. Savor the beauty of this truth.

The battles you fight that no one knows about? He’s there.

The private victories? He’s there, too.

Jesus is With You: A Visual Reminder

Maybe you already have your Christmas decorations all packed up, or maybe you’ll wait a bit before taking them all down.

Can I encourage you to pick one ornament, one decoration to keep out year-round? A reminder that Jesus is with you, and the richness that brings.

Remember, my friend, since He is with us, we are never, ever alone.

Jesus is with you. Savor that truth. Bask in it. Take it with you into this new year.

Author

Erin Ulerich

Erin enjoys reminding others of the life-changing truth that Jesus is with us in every moment of every day. She has a YouTube channel, Mug to Mug with Erin, and is the author of In Unexpected Ways: Christmas in Everyday Life and The Hope of the Helpless: Seven Days of Praying for Orphans. Her latest project, Angkura: Hesed, a YA Christian Fantasy novel, is coming in May 2026.