God Is In The Manger: From Waiting To Joy Part 2

Send us Fan MailWe are hearing two voices to hopefully see and hear God speaking in a way that helps us receive the glory and splendour of what he did in being in that manger.Isaiah breaks into a glorious and splendid, good news word this morning. In his words that paint many pictures, he will try and break through our normal Christmas expectations to show us the glory and splendour of Jesus.Like the sun rising for another day, we shall know that in Jesus, we are OK and will be OK, no matter what happens around us.God’s people really needed to hear these words when they were first spoken seven hundred years before John the Baptist and Jesus appeared.Their good life was completely destroyed. Home lost, community de-constrcuted, nation taken away and under the thumb of a neighbouring super-power.Why? Human deafness, blindness, lack of speech concerning the loyalty, power and love of the Lord. Isaiah regularly hits the people with this hard truth.And then a shaft of light that outshines fear and hopelessness and pride. That is what we shall know today – hope in our despair and for our pride.May you watch and wait for this hope in where you are facing.Pastor Adrian Kitson