Day 358 and I managed to carve out a 78th Christmas preach!!!
It's the day after Christmas (Boxing Day in many parts of the world) - did Christmas fulfill your expectations?
Its the day after the first Christmas and Jesus is fleeing for his life, a refugee heading to Egypt. Herod the Great was after him.
A hugely crazy king.
Killed everybody in his way.
Married 10/11 wives.
Killed the only one he really loved as he got suspicious of her.
Killed her two sons.
Killed his barber who stood up for his two sons.
Killed his predecessors.
Taxed the people into massive poverty.
On the day he died he wanted people to mourn, so he rounded up some of the most eminent men of Israel and gave orders that on the day he died they should be executed to ensure there was
weeping in Israel on the day he died.
A crazed, despot.
Now - the day after the first Christmas Jesus is wanted dead by Herod the Great.
You would have thought the Godhead would have planned the incarnation at the time of a better king!
But they didn't.
In fact Scripture elsewhere tells us that "when the time was fully come" - the exact, right, precise time ...even if it was slap bang in the middle of one of the craziest, violent kings of history.
What's the point?
If Jesus could enter the world of evil and tyranny under Herod ....maybe he can enter our world of evil and tyranny with the genocide happening and multiple wars raging.
If Jesus could enter the world of Herod's day when most people were held in poverty and oppression .... maybe he can enter our world where so many remain in poverty, where millions earn less than a $1 a day, where millions of children can't gain education.
If Jesus could enter the world of pain and disappointment in Herod's day .... then maybe he can enter our world filled with its disappointment and pain.
Jesus entered the world at the time of the meanest Herod ...... giving hope to all of us as we face our Herod's .....because in every day and every age there are Herod's.
So ....who's causing you to flee?
Who's your Herod?
Jesus entered this world right at the time of Herod!!!
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