Every year it seems the American marketing machine cranks up Christmas a little earlier than the year before. Aside from Pastor Louie, who has to start listening to Christmas music in July, most of don't start thinking too seriously about it until after Halloween. However, if you're reading through the Bible chronologically, you're now in the middle of the Christmas story.
There are some benefits to that. You can read the story without the tinsel, shopping, and dinners distracting you. You can take time to think about the power of this remarkable story. This morning I was struck once again by how odd all of this must have seemed to Mary and Joseph, the shepherds, and the three wise men from the east. But that's the way God works. By the circumstances of our every day lives, he prepares us for the moment when he changes everything. What qualified Mary and Joseph to play the leading roles in this drama? Their walk with God. Their conformity to image of the Son she would soon bear. What a beautiful story.
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