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For most people the version of the Christmas story they know is the Hallmark version.
Everything is pretty and it makes you feel good.
If you highlighted in 3 paragraphs what your last year looked like, there would be detail after detail that would be left out.
So what I want to do today is take a familiar story that we’ve heard over and over and pull out some details that will make it, I hope, more meaningful for you.
Being in a virgin in Biblical culture was much different than how our culture views virginity.
If you were found not to be a virgin or pregnant, it meant that you could be stoned and put to death, you would be shunned as an outcast and have to beg for everything you would ever have in life.
The fact that Joseph is a descendant of King David is important because it was prophesied that Jesus would be of the lineage of David.
So, Joseph is a man of royalty.
If God said to you that you have found favor, what would you assume would be true in your life?
That everything you don’t like about your life, get’s fixed.
There’s money in the bank, we pay the rent, all my relationships are great, my circumstances are awesome.
No more stress, sleepless nights, no more problems, everything is amazing.
I’ve found favor with God.
If God said to you that you have found favor, what would you assume would be true in your life?
That everything you don’t like about your life, get’s fixed.
There’s money in the bank, we pay the rent, all my relationships are great, my circumstances are awesome.
No more stress, sleepless nights, no more problems,
It all sound great!
Mary could have been thinking, “God has an incredible plan for our family!”
“My Son will be King!”
We think everything is going to be perfect, because God is our lives
But then everything changed with the next question that Mary asked:
Luke 1.34
Joseph will leave me, the people can stone me or shun me as an outcast for the rest of my life.
I will have to beg for everything I get.
It doesn’t matter to me what people think, or what they say.
I want Your plan above all things!
You don’t have to understand the plan to trust God has a purpose.
You don’t have to understand the plan to trust God has a purpose.
We have plans that don’t quite work out the way we thought
Things may not look that way you want right now.
Nothing may be going according to your plan, but God has a purpose in all of it.
Trust Him! Just like Mary had to do.
God, let it be to me as Your Word declares.
I don’t care what people think, I don’t care what the some of the consequences could be.
I trust You!
And I want Your plan above all things!
There is a purpose to all of this!
So what was the purpose to God bringing Jesus into the world the way He did?
You were the purpose!
We hear all the time through out the Christmas season that “Jesus is the reason for the season”, but if you ask God, your Father that question, He would say, you were the reason for the season.
All this happened for you and for me.
A savior came into the world so that He could save His people from their sins.
This is not how we would have written the story!
If we wrote it, Jesus would have come in as a conquering King!
Not a baby in a lowly manger.
Why?
Because that’s how we would write our own story.
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