Be strong
and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD. Psalm 31:24
Vineyard City Church had a surprise
visitor Christmas Eve night, an older man, although still spry and alert,
reflecting over some of the events of his life when he was much younger and
falling in love with a local village girl named Mary. And life was not neat and
tidy for Joseph, as he struggled with his fears and longings and the opinions
of the neighbors, as well as what do about these unexpected angels of the LORD
sent by Him to declare His will.
And the arrival of Emmanuel, God with
Us, doesn’t mean that life gets easy and quickly resolved. It is a pilgrimage
that can carry us on lonely paths through strange lands as we wait for the
story to unfold.
But it Is comforting to hear the
stories to those who have gone before me, the veritable cloud of witnesses, who
also followed the quiet still voice, “Be strong and take courage, Because I,
Your God, am with you, even unto the end of the age.”
Selah.
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