Blog 12-11-2009

Friday

PRaP 12-11-2009

 

“Welcome!  Welcome!”

 

When a new baby is born into a family it is a blessed event and everyone in the family comes to visit and see the new baby and bring gifts for mom and baby.  What if someone showed up that you didn’t know and not only that they brought these hugely expensive gifts and money so that this child that was born would not have to ever worry about money and would have everything he or she needs to be raised to adulthood?  Now obviously you would question them and maybe they would begin to tell you a story similar to this:

 

Matthew 2:

 ¹After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi^[a] from the east came to Jerusalem ²and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east^[b] and have come to worship him.”

 ³When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. ⁴When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ^[c] was to be born. ⁵“In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written:
 ⁶” ‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
      are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
   for out of you will come a ruler
      who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.’^[d]”

 ⁷Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. ⁸He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and make a careful search for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.”

 ⁹After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east^[e] went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. ¹⁰When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. ¹¹On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh. ¹²And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.

 

Now I know that in today’s society that a family showing up is a rarity any more because the sin of the world has broken the true family into pieces and many children today are born outside of the family of God and into a worldly existence but they are a blessing none the less.  Let us use this to try and bring back Holy matrimony and the ways of God and marriage and family.  Jesus loves you all so let’s go look for Him on His Birthday.

 

Peace and Agape Love,

Pastor Steve