Born To Reign In Us Forever

ADVENT--DAY 11

Israel had been beaten down and battered, exiled and humiliated for hundreds of years.  They were looking for an earthly king to come and deliver them.

It was not to be.

The birth of The Messiah had been predicted all those many year of enslavement, embitterment and hopelessness.

So, when Jesus showed up in the form of a helpless babe, walked three decades on this earth showing tenderness, love and humility, He was not accepted by His own.

Luke 1:31-33

You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. 

32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. 

The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, 

33 and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”

It was to the people that He was to come--

to be born in them 

to reign in them forever.

If we have accepted Jesus as our Messiah, our Savior, we are grafted in and He comes to rule and reign in us forever.  He will never desert us.  He will never leave us.  He will be with us always even to the ends of the earth.  Matt. 28:20

Isn't that a glorious advent promise.  Today I accept Him all over again.  I invite Him in to rule and reign in my heart.  Oh, Come Lord Jesus.  Come to me a hopeless sinner apart from YOU!

So sing it out!

Shout it out!

With Him we are more than conquerors!

Romans 8:31b-39

 If God is for us,who can be against us? 

32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—

how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 

33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 

34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. 

Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—

is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? 

Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 

36 As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;

    we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”[a]

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 

38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life,

 neither angels nor demons,[b] neither the present nor the future, 

nor any powers, 

39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, 

will be able to separate us from the love of God 

that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.