The First Is Last

“So the last will be first, and the first will be last.” -- Matthew 20:16 NIV

He was born to a humble, working family. His birth came in a very small, mostly inconsequential town. His parents didn't have a nice, big hospital room with doctors and nurses at the ready. Their family had to spend the first years of His life in exile until Herod was no longer a threat. He worked for a living to help support His mother...He was a carpenter, not someone with a really high profile, high paying job. He accepted an unjust arrest, extremely brutal torture (if you don't believe me watch The Passion Of The Christ...and if you don't tear up you have no heart), and crucifixion so that you and I and everyone else who has ever lived and ever will have a ticket to Heaven waiting on us.

There is a long lineage in the Bible of very important people who had very humble beginnings. Go back and look and you will see what I mean. God loves the meek, the humble, those cast aside. It's when He can show up and do His thing where you and I have no choice but to acknowledge it as His hand at work.

Have a very safe, very happy, very Godly Christmas!