God is with us, not as a ghostly apparition among us bodily creatures. God is with us in our flesh. God is with us as the Word. For our part we must not let the modern understanding of language and word detract us from the biblical understanding of word. Word is not an object over which we may stand in judgment.
Word is an event, a happening.
That is why when we proclaim the mystery of faith we are not only describing what God is doing. We ourselves are participating in the very act of God to bring his creation to fulfillment. The proclamation of the Gospel is the Word in action. The fourteenth verse says the Word became flesh. That word translated became is givnomai.