A Savior has just been born in David’s town, a Savior who is Messiah and Master. This is what you’re to look for: a baby wrapped in a blanket and lying in a manger.” Luke 2:12 (The Message) Do you sometimes feel like one of the toys left on the Island of Misfit toys--
Charlie in the Box A train with square wheels A water gun that only shoots jelly… Do you sing the song: “Why am I such a misfit? Why am I such a nit wit?” If you’ve ever had to change schools in the middle of the school year, moved to another state, started a new job working for a new boss, you know a bit what it’s like to feel like a misfit. If you’ve travelled to another region of our country or even to a different nation, you know what its like to be a misfit. You don’t know the unspoken rules and the culture of your new home. The insiders, the fit-ins, look at you funny when you speak. They squint their eyes at your outfits, and smirk at your expense. People can even feel like a misfit when they attend a church. Often, the most difficult step a person takes in coming to church is the step out of their vehicle toward the building. Why? They don’t know if they’ll fit in or not. Will they sound silly? Did they wear the right thing? Will they escape with their dignity? We are the Messiah’s Misfits! It seems to me that God has put us who bear his Message on stage in a theater in which no one wants to buy a ticket. We’re something everyone stands around and stares at, like an accident in the street. We’re the Messiah’s misfits. 1 Cor. 4:9 How are we expecting the Messiah/ the Savior to come to us? Do we look for a king (president) to overthrow our government and our twisted policies? Do we look for a prophet or priest with a huge personality to come and correct all the wrong-headedness and set things aright? Are we looking for a savior to come and clean up our messes, fix our lives so that this life works and I can triumph now? Could it be that the Messiah has come, Immanuel has come, God with Us has come—in the midst of your mess—and you’re missing Him because he isn’t what you expected? You expected him to swoop in and fix your life and yet that’s not what’s happened. You expected him to come and heal all your hurts and stop the tears, but that’s not what’s happened...yet! Could it be that you are missing Immanuel (God with you) because you’ve been expecting something or someone other than Jesus, the Messiah? Over the next few days push away the clamor of the world and take some time to ponder and treasure Jesus—the unfolding story of a Messiah whose promised birth turned out exactly like it had been told and whose return will turn out exactly as it has been told. Let us ponder and treasure Him. He came so that we who are unfit for kingdom life could be made fit.
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