A Very Important Delivery is on Its Way!

Today I‘m anticipating the arrival of an important package. FedEx and other package delivery services have gotten smart. Instead of having millions of people clogging the phone lines to inquire about deliveries they have instituted a system to track individual packages. The customer enters a Tracking Number on the company’s website. The customer then receives a digital read out of where the package is in the system on its journey.

As I thought about this, the thought came to me that this is just what God did when it came to Jesus, the Messiah’s birth. In the Book of Genesis God started notating the purpose and  process by which the Messiah would come. Each Book of the Bible and each prophetic utterance points to Christ on His journey from heaven to earth. 

After the crucifixion and resurrection Jesus walked on the Road to Emmaus. Jesus was traveling incognito. Jesus joined up with two men and asked the topic of their conversation. The two men  expressed surprise that this stranger walking with them did not know about the burning issue of the moment  which was the death of a man everyone thought was  the Messiah.  As they walked  and talked together Jesus taught them something profound. “27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.”  Luke 24:27

Each prophecy and story provides the pieces to ensure that when the Messiah appeared  in the New Testament that Jesus was the only one who met all of the criteria or stopped at those different transfer points.  God’s tracking of His  Divine Gift,  to earth is proof of the reason for this season.   This is simply amazing. Jesus Christ, the Messiah did not miss one point on the route to the Manger Scene in Bethlehem. 

There is a great verse in the Bible in Galatians 4:4-5  But when the time arrived that was set by God the Father, God sent his Son, born among us of a woman, born under the conditions of the law so that he might redeem those of us who have been kidnapped by the law. (Message Bible) 

It’s the same when one prays a prayer. I imagine the prayer gets a time stamp on it as soon as it reaches heaven. Then it starts the  tracking process to whatever the answer is going to be.

Yes FedEx, UPS and the USPS can track your package too. However the very first and best Tracking System can be found right between the covers of the Bible starting in the Book of Genesis.