Friday, December 29, 2017

Hope in Darkness



Christmas Eve is a good time to talk about hope. Imagine Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem, expecting their first child. Well, Mary’s first. Joseph knew the child to be of the Holy Spirit. But now they have traveled a dangerous journey. They are without a decent place to stay and the baby is coming tonight! God’s promises are with them but everything seems to have happened at the wrong time.
         But it is not the wrong time. It is just the right time. All is well. The full inns, the baby’s arrival in a stable, the birth in Bethlehem, the city of David, all this was the very particular will of God for Mary, Joseph and Jesus.

         The evening was dark, the times were dark, the situation seemed dark. But in the midst of this darkness is hope that God’s light will dawn and grow into the brightness of the full day. Hope in God is often hope in darkness but the light will come. The light has come.

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