November 28th

Daily Reading

Gen 49:10

The scepter will not depart from Judah,
nor the ruler’s staff from his descendants,
until the coming of the one to whom it belongs,
the one whom all nations will honor.

Luke 3:33

Nahshon was the son of Amminadab.
Amminadab was the son of Admin.
Admin was the son of Arni.
Arni was the son of Hezron.
Hezron was the son of Perez.
Perez was the son of Judah.

Hebrews 7:14

What I mean is, our Lord came from the tribe of Judah, and Moses never mentioned priests coming from that tribe.

2 Samuel 7:12-13

For when you die and are buried with your ancestors, I will raise up one of your descendants, your own offspring, and I will make his kingdom strong. He is the one who will build a house—a temple—for my name. And I will secure his royal throne forever.

Isaiah 9:7

His government and its peace
will never end.
He will rule with fairness and justice from the throne of his ancestor David
for all eternity.
The passionate commitment of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies
will make this happen!

Luke 1:32-33

He will be very great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David. And he will reign over Israel forever; his Kingdom will never end!”

Romans 1:3

The Good News is about his Son. In his earthly life he was born into King David’s family line

(Readings taken from Bible Gateway, https://www.biblegateway.com/ New Living Translation)

Committed to the chaos

“The passionate commitment of the Lord God Almighty will guarantee it.” (Isaiah 9:7)

Think about that sentence for a moment.

Passionate.

God’s power and focus wholly directed to this eternal mission.

Commitment.

God upholds His promise, ruthlessly dedicated to its end.

But He doesn’t pick the perfect. His promise to redeem is paved by a rabble of broken, selfish, and unworthy participants.

Participants like David. King David reveals the kindness of our God in the most spectacular of ways.

A murderer. Adulterer. Deceiver.

A worshiper. Poet and Leader.

In David we see the wrestle we identify perhaps in ourselves. A man who courageously and zealously seeks after God’s Holy presence. Simultaneously a man who has seen and felt and grappled with the depth of his depravity.

This man – God includes.

David isn’t alone either, the lineage of Jesus is littered with examples of men and women deeply rooted in sin.

A prostitute.

A human trafficker.

Liars and brutes.

Yet into this chaos – into this human condition - God promises to arrive.

And arrive He does!

God saw their need for Him, saw the emptiness and destruction and despair they experienced and He waded in.

That kind of passionate commitment is a Christmas gift to us all.

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