There are so many messages out there right now. As I write this, it's reformation day and of course Halloween. I am reading all over social media about 8 weeks of shopping till Christmas. Today, we are all concerned about candy, next we'll be dreaming of oven-baked, smoked or fried turkey. Then, with still undigested turkey in our bellies we will rush to the stores to wait in lines f0r the deals that will make us truly happy this holiday season.
I wonder in all of our holiday gluttony and materialism, as we bow our collective knees to the god of consumerism, does our idolatry ever even slow down long enough to think about a time much different than our modern era. When a definition of "blessed and highly favored" did not leave "visions of sugar plums", big screen tvs, and cadillacs dancing in our heads. Of course, none of us know what day Jesus was actually born. What I do know is "For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly." (Romans 5:6, ESV). So, December 25th to me is just as good as any other day to celebrate His coming. With that being said: See, Mary is 32 weeks pregnant in a time when pregnancy made a hard life even more precarious. 32 tough weeks down and 8 more to go until Christmas. During the course of this pregancy she will have been a virgin that was assumed to be a harlot, she will face ridicule and the possibility of stoning,
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