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| The Escort On The Advent Journey |
Next weekend several of our Marshall County Special Olympians will travelto the State of Kentucky Special Olympics Bowling Tournament, and the weekend will be full of great competition and life changing experiences. They are blessed to have awesome leaders go on the journey with them as to ensure their safety, protection, and well being.
After a full weekend of competition and fellowship, they are usually welcomed home to Marshall County with an escort by the Marshall County Sheriff's Department. I know that this was is an experience that they always remember.
The same goes for us as we travel on this Advent journey, in the fact that God's Word gives us an escort home to Advent, home to the Messiah promised to come. In the Gospel of Luke in chapter three we see John the Baptist speaking the words of the Prophet Isaiah 4 As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet:“A voice of one calling in the wilderness,‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.5 Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill made low.The crooked roads shall become straight, the rough ways smooth. 6 And all people will see God’s salvation."
We need not be a sports team being led home from a destination, and there is no special fame needed for an escort home. Beloved, we all may take different roads to the Christ Child, but we are to be at peace in the fact that God has given us an escort for our journey. The scriptures are God's personal escort for us that will deliver each and every one of us safely home and into the presence of the Messiah.
Our journeys may not be escorted by blue lights and the sounds of sirens, but we are promised that our escort will make our paths straight, and we will all be escorted to God's wonderful and glorious salvation through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Using God's Word As An Escort To Bethlehem!
Pastor Tim
