Today I am battling a headache, reading with kiddos, paying bills, making turkey soup, and buying our tree (spoiler on where we landed on that point!
Genesis 3:14-19 The Lord God said to the serpent,“Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat
all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” To the woman he said,
“I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.” And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you,‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Through their disobedience Adam and Eve were cursed, banished from the perfect beautiful garden God had originally placed them in. Life cursed so much as to make even the ground difficult, childbirth painful ...But in the midst of God pronouncing the curses, He promises there will be a seed (offspring in this translation) which will crush the serpent's head even as the serpent bites at His heel. The serpent, the deceiver will be destroyed. By the offspring of the woman, the curses will one day be reversed. Peace will once again reign.
Many long generations, building expectation, desperation as sin abounded and all suffered. The Israelites looked forward in expectation to a Savior. Then Christ was born into time, fully God yet fully man. With His death He paid the necessary price for all of mankind's sin. With His resurrection He gave us His righteousness that we can live as new creatures in Him.
Now, WE await His triumphant return. Many generations watching and waiting, desperate hearts as sin abounds and our very world suffers from it. And so with the followers of Christ for 2 millennia we join in saying, 'Come thou long expected Jesus!'
Through their disobedience Adam and Eve were cursed, banished from the perfect beautiful garden God had originally placed them in. Life cursed so much as to make even the ground difficult, childbirth painful ...But in the midst of God pronouncing the curses, He promises there will be a seed (offspring in this translation) which will crush the serpent's head even as the serpent bites at His heel. The serpent, the deceiver will be destroyed. By the offspring of the woman, the curses will one day be reversed. Peace will once again reign.
Many long generations, building expectation, desperation as sin abounded and all suffered. The Israelites looked forward in expectation to a Savior. Then Christ was born into time, fully God yet fully man. With His death He paid the necessary price for all of mankind's sin. With His resurrection He gave us His righteousness that we can live as new creatures in Him.
Now, WE await His triumphant return. Many generations watching and waiting, desperate hearts as sin abounds and our very world suffers from it. And so with the followers of Christ for 2 millennia we join in saying, 'Come thou long expected Jesus!'
Here are some resources we are enjoying.
(Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with these companies or people. You may assume I enjoy their work, but they have no idea who I am. Further, I have no motivation in recommending them, other than for you to possibly enjoy and be edified by their work too.)
A daily Advent devotional. It can be sent to your inbox so you don't forget.http://ccca.biola.edu/advent/
A new album. Some familiar favorites (with slightly changed up, doctrinally enriched lyrics) and some new ones which are quickly becoming favorites here.
http://sovereigngracemusic.org/Albums/Prepare_Him_Room_Celebrating_the_Birth_of_Jesus_in_Song
A 20 minute walk thru the story of Christ's incarnation from the Book of Luke. Teacher R.C. Sproulhttp://www.ligonier.org/learn/series/christmas_story/
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