Christmas Advent 2012 Day 3

December 4, 2012 Do you remember when you found out that you were going to be a parent? And then the long wait for the coming out party. With Those months were some of the longest months as we anticipated the birth of our children. There was that time of preparation of the "Baby's Room". Everything had to be perfect and just the right color, Safety approved bed and toys. It was a time of anticipation and preparation. With our first child, getting to that point of announcement seemed like it was never going to happen. A very unique thing happened with us. We were at the funeral of a very dear member of the church we were serving in. After the service, one of the many favorite people walked up to my wife and told her not to worry that she would be pregnant within a month. And sure enough it happened. Most of the prophecies about the coming Messiah happen within the context of something else that is happening. When God is speaking to the devil in Genesis 3:15 he said, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel." The first statement of the coming of the Messiah came during a time when man had disobeyed God by giving in to temptation by the devil. God spoke of the one who would redeem mankind back. All the Old Testament builds toward that great day a baby was born, swaddled and place in a feed trough. In the same way we anticipated and prepared for the birth of our own child; let us make the same preparation for the coming Savior. It’s something to think about.