Son of the Most High

The birth of Jesus announced. This is the Messiah. The one for whom our soul waits. He is the Son of the Most High - given the throne of his father David to rule over Jacob in a kingdom with no end. This announcement from Gabriel is chalked full of fulfillment language. It is right that we sing at Christmas time - O little town of Bethlehem! The hopes and fears of all the years are met in you tonight! The birth of this Messiah is the climax of human history. Even if this was just God sending Israel's long-awaited appointed deliverer, the beauty of all those prophecies fulfilled would be staggering. But reality over expectation is even more staggering - because the deliverer is actually the Son of the Most High! The deliver is God himself!

Do we often forget on this side of the Messiah's advent the weight of promises fulfilled in which we stand? Is it easy for us to look back and think that Jesus came to save us from sin and think something along the lines of, "Oh, that is nice." - but failing to be in awe of just how incredible this reality is? If our eyes are truly to see his salvation - if we are to really know and appreciate the certainty of the things about which we have been instructed - we must consider the ages of answered hopes and prayers that have come true in Jesus!⁠