At Just the Right Time Messiah Arrives!

DAY 261
6-21-10
MATTHEW 1-4

After reading so many pages in the OT prophets of how God was going to bring all people together through the coming Messiah, the time has finally come. “At just the right time” (Rom. 5:6); and when “the time had fully come” (Gal. 4:4), Jesus was born into the world.  Matthew shows the family tree of Jesus – filled good and bad people – but regular people for sure. However, his ordinary family comes with the greatest exception – Jesus was born the son of God.

The opening chapters of Matthew make it clear that Jesus was a Jew; that he was born in a miraculous way; that he was susceptible to human temptation; he was filled with Holy Spirit power; and filled with God’s great compassion for the poor; the sick; and the lost.

There is an OT quotation in Matthew 1:23 that we should thank God for, because it directly blesses us more than we can really understand. Matthew quotes Isaiah 7:14. Jesus came to save us for sure – but he also came to be Immanuel – “God with us”.

Never again is God somewhere out there. Through Christ, he is always with me.

Barry