MATTHEW 1:1

This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham:.

TO PONDER

Have you ever seen your family tree, the list of your ancestors going back for generations? 

I’m not sure if its still there but there was a coal mining memorial display in a park somewhere in Wisemans Ferry that we visited well over 30 years ago where the Brock family was listed as a coal mining family who immigrated from Wales many, many years before.

I remember being told with my grandfather and my father working in some of the last coal mines to close down in the Newcastle region, the Brock family had worked in Coal Mines for at least 6 generations. Being part of the Brock family meant the plan was once you left school you would get a job down the mines, in fact when I left school I applied but due to the production of coal being cut back the son of a more senior guy than my dad got hired instead of me. The coal mining Brock legacy ended with my generation.

Today’s verse is the start of one of those passages of the Bible known as “beget” list, most of us skip over the begets or give them a cursory scan through but they are there to remind us that the impossible plan of advent-ure was conceived from the beginning.

Paul tells us in Ephesian 1:3-6, “Long before he laid down earth’s foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love. Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ.” (MSG)

That means before God even created time he had an advent plan to include us in the begets, before Abraham he planned us to be included.

PRAYER:  Faithful God, thanks for your advent plan for me, even before time existed, you had conceived the plan for me to be part of your family. Amen.

Today's devotion written by Danny Brock, LifeWay Westside.