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Message from the Overseer
Written by Bishop Yanez Dec. 19, 2011
God's Timing is Always Right
It seems that a question we are continually
asked these days is “Are you ready for Christmas”?
Our casual response is “It sure did come upon us suddenly!
Or, I just have a few more gifts to buy.
Or I’ve done all the shopping early, to avoid the crowds.
But Christmas is about the birth of our Savior!
We should be ready!
Luke 2
The Birth of Jesus
1 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a
census should be taken of the entire Roman world.
2 (This was the first census that
took place while[a]
Quirinius was governor of Syria.)
3 And everyone went to their own town to register. (NIV)
What a turmoil that must have created for the citizens of those
various townships.
Having to return to their birth area for that census.
It seems that the government had quite a control over them
then as there is now. In
the political turmoil presently occurring in our country, the
financial woes in our economy, the strains it is causing in many
families, we must remember one thing, Jesus is still on the throne!
The angels declared: 14
“Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on
whom His favor rests.”
This
Christmas season is really no different than it was 2000 years ago,
with all of the goings on now; it was going on ”back in the day”.
But our responsibility while on this journey, is to continue
to trust and confide in Him who is still on the throne.
Rulers come and go, census’s taken shake people up, but it is
all in God’s hands. The
decree then was a God thing.
In order for prophecies to be fulfilled, Joseph had to return
to Bethlehem. Jesus the
Son of God was to be born in that manger.
Galatians 4:4-5 But
when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a
woman, born under the law,
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to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to
sonship (NIV) It is
all in His timing! Let’s
enjoy God’s gift to us!
A servant,
Bishop Jesse Yanez
