Ordinary People Or Even Scandalous People Ushering in Grace
As I was doing my devotional readings this morning one of them was the Matthew 1 the genealogy of Jesus. I read this several times a year because it reminds me of how God works.
At first glance this does not appear to be the most stimulating reading. And yet if you take the time to look at the list as a photo book of sorts you begin to see who is in Jesus family tree. And quite frankly for me this is a grace filled, joy filled celebration of sorts, to see who is in the divine family tree. There are only five women listed, yes only five, we of course know there had to be more, but five are listed and they are interesting choices ( won't give it away so you can dust off your Bibles and read for yourself! And spend some time getting to know who they were.)
But the genealogy in Matthew, the divine birth story of Jesus as Matthew tells it, beginning with Abraham, demonstrates that God works through ordinary, flawed human beings to display the extraordinary things of God, and that means God can work through you and me too.
And that's my tripping into grace today!
As I was doing my devotional readings this morning one of them was the Matthew 1 the genealogy of Jesus. I read this several times a year because it reminds me of how God works.
At first glance this does not appear to be the most stimulating reading. And yet if you take the time to look at the list as a photo book of sorts you begin to see who is in Jesus family tree. And quite frankly for me this is a grace filled, joy filled celebration of sorts, to see who is in the divine family tree. There are only five women listed, yes only five, we of course know there had to be more, but five are listed and they are interesting choices ( won't give it away so you can dust off your Bibles and read for yourself! And spend some time getting to know who they were.)
But the genealogy in Matthew, the divine birth story of Jesus as Matthew tells it, beginning with Abraham, demonstrates that God works through ordinary, flawed human beings to display the extraordinary things of God, and that means God can work through you and me too.
And that's my tripping into grace today!
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