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Monday... It finally happened.


Psalm 53:6 (NLT), "Who will come from Mount Zion to rescue Israel? When God restores his people, Jacob will shout with joy, and Israel will rejoice."

Monday... It finally happened.

Margaret, my wife and I have moved into a different house but we still don't have the money out of our other house that we sold. It is supposed to come today or tomorrow. This matter of waiting can be so tough, it really can be. But it will finally happen.

Well, the children of Israel had been told over 400 years before that a Savior was coming. He had been promised by God but then God was silent. The Old Testament ended with a book written by the minor prophet, Malachi who was inspired by God but then nothing until the Gospel of Matthew. There was about 400 years between these two inspired books. So they waited.


Now King David wrote Psalm 53:6. way over 400 years. In it he said, "Who will come from Mount Zion to rescue Israel? When God restores his people, Jacob will shout with joy, and Israel will rejoice." And that was a great question and answer. But waiting can be so difficult.

Yes, Jesus, the Son of God did come but he came as a baby, not the way that many expected. We will be going to church tomorrow to celebrate that fact that Jesus came. We will be celebrating the answer of this Psalm. Yes at this time each year we celebrate this gift from God. And we give gifts to others to celebrate but they were waiting. They hadn't heard anything for such a long time.

Now the good thing for us is that we have heard of this gift that was coming to restore his people, to bring us to the point that we can do away with much of the ceremonies that they went through to be forgiven of their sins. It was a very involving ceremony but now the Savior was born but it didn't happen the way that they imagined so many didn't believe, they didn't rejoice, they even killed him but that was all in God's plan to restore, to rescue, to save.

Yes, Jesus came as a baby to restore us to what God had planned for us. He came so that we could live, really live and eventually for us to live eternally with him, with God. But it didn't happen as so many thought it would, so they didn't believe and that is true of so many today.

But so many of us do believe and we all celebrate the birth of this baby who came to restore and to rescue us so that we can really live.

Now there is another day that we who are followers of Jesus in which we are waiting. It is the day that Jesus will return. I'm reading every day about it the last book of the Bible, the book of Revelation. It is going to be unbelievable. And we too need to be ready for it to happen. It is coming. Jesus came as a baby to make a way for this to happen. So let's celebrate his coming by giving our lives to him. Just as his first coming happened so will his second coming. It too will finally happen. So let's be ready. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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