A New Week...Another Opportunity To Get It Right

In the book of Luke, Chapter 1, we read where John the baptizer's father, Zacharias, is filled with the Holy Spirit after at the birth of his son.
Zacharias begins to prophesy concerning the birth of the coming Messiah, Jesus.
In verse 68, Zacharias says:
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, For He has visited us and accomplished redemption for His people.

God is in the proclaiming business.
What do I mean by this?
He always informs His people of things to come.
Then brings to fulfillment what He has spoken.
That is why I always say,"God is who He claims to be.....and will do what He claims He will do."
He is a God of His word.
Zacharias' speech is in the past tense. God has visited us. God has accomplished. There was no physical, tangible evidence that Messiah had come and the prophesies of the Old Testament had been fulfilled. In God's view, He had spoken what was only a matter of time to be completed.
Why write about this?
What does this have to do with anything?
Well, there are many, many prophesies still unfulfilled in the New Testament and Old Testament. Just because time has passed and we haven't seen them completed doesn't mean that God has lost His way or has become to incapacitated to accomplish His word.

My very life and call God has given to me is evidence of the truth of His word.
For God so loved the world (of which I am a part) that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever (that would be me) believes on Him (Jesus) should have (in the future) eternal life.
Jesus came to give us two kinds of life.
Abundant life, here and now.
Eternal life after we shake off the mortal coil of this body at death.
God 's word is true.
God's word is yes and amen.

The very last verse of Zacharias' prophecy closes with these words:
To give His people the knowledge of salvation by the forgiveness of sins, because of the tender mercy of our God, with which the Sunrise from on high shall visit us, To shine upon those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."

In other words, for this day and time, no longer will people have to sit in the darkness and oppression of sin (Includes addiction). No longer will they be separated from hope and deliverance, but by the loving hand of God the Father, through the work of Jesus Christ, there is freedom for all who cry out unto salvation.
Now if that doesn't set you on fire, then your wood is wet.
There is freedom.....
There is freedom today....

God on you.....
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