Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Tell Me About
the Christmas Baby:
An Advent Devotional Guide
“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small
among the clans of Judah, out of you will come one who will be ruler over
Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient of times.”
Michal 5:2
Micah, a contemporary of Isaiah and Hosea, wrote in the late 700s BC or early to mid-600s, yet he prophesied the coming of a ruler who pre-existed him. We are such time-oriented people that we have great difficulty comprehending this! One will come who has always been! Is that double speak? Possible?
Yes, not only possible but fact! From the beginning, the plan had been to send a redeemer for fallen man – God’s creation that pleased Him and that He called good, God’s creation who disappointed Him but whom He loved and for whose redemption He would die!
I don’t know that Micah understood, but he reported faithfully what God had spoken to him. Beginning in chapter 4, God tells Micah His plan, and Micah recorded it for us. From the smallest of the tribes of Israel will come a gift – a baby – who will grow to be the greatest ruler the world has ever known, a strong, eternal ruler. He’ll not be just a king but The King of Kings and Lord of Lords! Hallelujah!
Father, Thank you for the King above all kings; thank you for our Lord whose birthday we’ll soon celebrate. Amen.
Tell Me About the Christmas Baby:
An Advent Devotional
Guide
prepared for First United Methodist Church of Homosassa, Florida
Winter 2010
by Patience Nave, Christian Education Coordinator
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