Son of God!

For Thursday, December 22, 2022:

Luke 1:35b NLT: “The baby to be born will be holy, and he will be called the Son of God.”

Our Savior has a lot of names. We know him as Jesus, which means Savior or The Lord saves. Jesus is our modern English language translation. In Hebrew, it’s Yeshua or Y’shua, to save or to deliver. In the Old Testament, that same name was Joshua.

Isaiah calls him Immanuel, God with us, and also predicts that our Savior will be known as: Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father and Prince of Peace.

But the angel Gabriel tells Mary that her child will be known as the Son of the Most High! Consider the complexity of God’s plan, that 1/3 of our trinitarian God would come to earth as a little baby and become the influential holy man people still worship 2,000 years later!

Mary’s baby was on a mission trip to rescue mankind!

Pastor Norton Lawellin

Jesus in the City Fellowship

Almighty God!

For Wednesday, December 21, 2022:

Psalm 8:3-4 NLT: “When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—the moon and the stars you set in place—what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them?”

David is amazed at the wisdom of God, the planning and execution of building a universe. The Bible says that if we open our eyes to witness the majesty surrounding us, there will be no doubt that there is a God!

The power of God is incredible! God is the greatest power we know, #1, and he made mankind just beneath himself, #2! The Lord gave us charge of everything he made, putting all things under mankind’s authority—the flocks and the herds and all the wild animals, the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea, and everything that swims the ocean currents.

The Lord thinks so highly of us that he wanted to rescue mankind from our sin problem. We are blessed to be included in God’s vast eternal plan!

After all, we were created in God’s image! Christmas is coming, and we’re about to be rescued!

Pastor Norton Lawellin

Jesus in the City Fellowship

The Lord's Servant!

For Tuesday, December 20, 2022:

Luke 1:26-27 NLT: “In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a village in Galilee, to a virgin named Mary. She was engaged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of King David.”

Elizabeth was the mother of John-the-Baptist, who would be born before Mary’s child Jesus, so he could herald the coming Messiah. Mary, still a virgin, was pledged to be married to Joseph when Gabriel visited and explained the whole thing. Mary would become pregnant through the Holy Spirit. They were to name the child Jesus, which means “The Lord saves or Savior.” “The baby to be born will be holy, and he will be called the Son of God.”

This was all foretold in scripture – someone to announce Jesus’ arrival, the city of Nazareth, born of a virgin, descendant of King David. It’s all coming into focus!

Mary was the perfect example of obedience to God’s call. “I am the Lord’s servant. May everything you have said about me come true.”

The world is about to be rescued!!

Pastor Norton Lawellin

Jesus in the City Fellowship