Advent Twenty Four - Joy

 

Living to reflect God's glory, by Petrina Kent
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“Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come to his people and redeemed them. He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David (as he said through his holy prophets of long ago), salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us— to show mercy to our ancestors and to remember his holy covenant, the oath he swore to our father Abraham: to rescue us from the hand of our enemies, and to enable us to serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all our days. Luke 1: 68 to 75

Zechariah knew the whole story.  How did he know it? It was given to him though an amazing experience.  Wonderful incredible experiences fill us with joy.  These are things that just unfold.  They can not really be constructed or manufactured.  Jesus is born into our world as a part of the amazing story which has a beginning, middle and end.  In the end, all the problems of today are corrected.  We believe Jesus came as the central part of this correcting.  One little infant.  Enough for us all.  Zechariah did not really know what he was talking about.  "Rescue us from our enemies." We know the enemy to be the darkness that separates us from joy. 

PRAYER: We wait patiently through the night because salvation comes in the morning.