Skip to main content

A Morning View By the Wood Stove

Twas the day before the night before Christmas and Joseph and Mary were traveling. 
She was pregnant with Jesus on their way to Bethlehem. There was no promise that because it was Jesus that this would not be an uncomfortable experience. She was promised that Jesus was the Son of the Most High. She had found favor with God and she was the human who would deliver the Savior.

Now I have never been pregnant, but my observation and understanding is that it is not the most comfortable situation to be in. It was clear that the map quest directions they had to follow were not the easiest journey to navigate. They probably had to take around 10 days to safely travel 90 miles for this event. Then upon arrival their reservations were cancelled and they stayed in the barn of the innkeepers home. And THEN the birthing process took place. When the child was born the reward was worth all the struggle of the journey. JESUS! 

The GLORY of Jesus's birth is our focus, but the process was not easy. 

There is great glory in our salvation shared with us from the grace of God, but our journey of faith is not easy. In fact it is a difficult journey. But the glory reward of eternity with Jesus is worth the struggle.  

May Mary's words in Luke 1:38 be our words of covenant with God.
“I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.”  

Peace,
PB

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A Morning View By the Wood Stove

If you proclaim Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, then I must ask you a question. Are you seeking the deepest possible intimate relationship with God that you can ever experience on this earth? Because I know what I am about to say to be absolutely true. If you are not and if you are pursuing anything other than God you will not ever be satisfied and ultimately any other relationship will fail. It does not matter how deeply connected with another person you are without God it will fail. Failure may not mean completely walk away, failure can mean that a relationship will not be what it is intended to be and you settle for it because at least it is there, it's the best I can do, it could be worse and for many other reasons.  We are created to be in relationship with one another. We have many relationships and many depths within those relationships. We have social relationships. We have relationship with many forms of addiction and substitution. We have friends and we have FRIENDS...
Post a Comment
Read more

A Morning View Near the Patio

I believe Christians are called to live a different life in the world than those who are not Christian. I believe that no matter the circumstance of the world, the government and all the just and injustice we are called to be different. Jesus handled the Easter journey much differently than I believe the modern Christian in the USA would have handled it. The Apostle Paul lived as best he humanly could to model the path and life of Jesus Christ during the difficult times of persecution and injustice of his journey. A lot of thoughts are swirling in my head during our difficult time we are currently experiencing and all of those thoughts come back to my life as a Christian, believer and follower of Jesus Christ, and do my thoughts, actions and words model Jesus on the Easter journey to the cross? In Matthew 16:24-26 Jesus told his disciples to "take up their cross and follow me!" I am believing that Jesus is telling us to live like, act like, be like and love like Jesus did....
Post a Comment
Read more

A Morning View Near the Patio

Sabbath - to rest from labor, set aside as holy. Because we have less to do in our current situation, perhaps as Christians we can redefine what Sabbath looks like for us. I wonder how many of us traditionally go to church in our weekend routine, have lunch then get right back at it? After all, we have so much to do and so little time. It has been nice to sit and be. On the nicer days, when the weather cooperates, it has been so nice to sit on the patio and just be. I have sat and contemplated there more this year than I did all last summer. Perhaps a new normal of Sabbath can take place in our lives. As a child I remember going to church on Sunday morning and on the way home being dropped off at Grandma and Granddad's place. We would have lunch and quite often go for a ride. Usually the ride would end somewhere with ice cream! The routes must have been develops around the ice cream establishments in Northeast Ohio! We did very little, but for me as a kid we did a lot. I remember...
Post a Comment
Read more