Merry Christmas!! I hope you have enjoyed this Advent series. Hope you continue join me and bring some friends along to make Bible reading a priority in the new year!
Psalm 22:9-10 (NLT)
“Yet you brought me safely from my mother’s womb and led me to trust you at my mother’s breast. I was thrust into your arms at my birth. You have been my God from the moment I was born.”
It is fitting to end our exploration of Messianic expectation with these verses as we celebrate the birth of Jesus today. Imagine the risks God was taking in sending the Messiah as a baby. Bumpy travel, no room in any of the hotels, a bunch of cows and sheep hanging around during labor. Talk about a set up for birth complications. This prophetic psalm reminds us not to take it for granted that Jesus made it out of the womb alive.
Jesus’ birth was a moment when he officially entered Satan’s kingdom. God was protecting Jesus from day one. Jesus had many opportunities to abandon the mission or surrender to Satan. Turn a stone into bread, bow down for an earthly kingdom, get down off that cross and show the mockers who’s boss. But he didn’t. Why? He trusted God.
You do not have to worry about God starting something in your life and then leaving it unfinished. It’s not his style. When he starts a mission, he sees it through to the end. We sometimes get impatient when we see things going wrong or when God seems to take too long for our liking. But he’s working. Right now. Today. He’s working. If he started it, he will finish it. Let’s see what he’ll do in and through you this next year.