It Starts Small

Today we read the recorded account of the birth of our Savior.

Lets pause for a moment and think about Mary and Joseph. At this point in history they are in the “now”. We can assume they are very familiar with the passages of scripture we read from Isaiah. They did not have God’s Word compiled together as we have it. However, they would have been taught that the Messiah is coming.

There were 700 years that passed between the time of Isaiah and the birth of Jesus. To put this into perspective, the Jewish idea of a generation was 30 years. So roughly 23 generations of people had passed on before the birth of Christ. For 23 generations, they had been waiting for a Messiah. They had passed down from generation to generation that hope was coming.

Now we come to the “present” and Joseph and Mary are on the verge of that Hope being born. Yesterday, as we examine the song, “O Come, O Come Emmanuel,” we talked about the morning had come. For 23 generations, people were in darkness, waiting for the morning to come. That morning was now to Joseph and Mary and all of humanity. They had grown up in the “now” and were on the brink of the Hope coming in the flesh!

In our “now”, what does this speak to us as we are waiting through advent?

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