The Promise Is His Presence by Glenna Marshall

Author:Glenna Marshall [Glenna Marshall]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: P&R Publishing
Published: 2019-07-20T00:00:00+00:00

What Were You Expecting?

The people weren’t looking for this baby Savior to be born to a poor carpenter’s family. All they knew of Yahweh was smoke and tents, clouds and temples. The stories they passed down were full of fire and fury, rent seas and perplexing plagues. The God whom they knew was big and loud and fearsome. At least, that’s what they thought. Could He really rescue them in such a humble manner?

If they’d been listening, really listening, they would have heard the whispers of the coming infant King. The prophets had spoken of the coming Rescuer. Isaiah had called him a Servant, not a political potentate. A servant. He’d talked about how undesirable He would be. A few saw Him coming: Zechariah, Elizabeth, Mary, Joseph, an old priest, an ancient prophetess, some foreign star-followers.

But that’s it. Corporately, there was no search for a Suffering Servant or a baby who would be born in a barn. If they’d been looking closely for Yahweh, they would have seen His Son. Their mistake was not that they didn’t look but that they looked for the wrong person. God has always chosen the ways in which He will keep His promise of presence, but we tend to see what we want to see. We’ll call Him good if He answers our prayers within the exact perimeters that we give Him, but God is good to us even when His answer looks wildly different from what we expect. Or even when His answer seems like no answer at all.

He does things in ways that seem backward to us. If we can look at Him instead of the distractions of our circumstances, we might be able to see Him being good to us in ways that we don’t expect. We might question what we know of Him. And if our questions send us to the Word so that we truly see this God who is good to us in unexpected ways, then the questions are well worth asking.

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