The Coming of the Messiah

This is an excerpt from the Daily Bible that I try to read everyday. This is the prelude the author wrote from the beginning of the New Testament. It's awesome.

All is now ready for the most important event in human history. It is an event planned even before the creation of the world. It is the keeping of a promise made to Abraham over 2000 years earlier. It is the fulfillment of a host of prophecies regarding a Messiah who would come to establish his kingdom. Most importantly, it is the beginning of a dynamically new relationship between God and man. The event is the coming of the Savior of the world, the Messiah - or, as referred to in the Greek, the Christ.

The Christ is not to be just another world leader, as Cyrus, Alexander, or Caesar. He is not to be just another great man of God, as Abraham, Moses, or David. He is to be God himself in human flesh! The Lord of heaven is to become a servant of the earth. God, who has previously made himself known through a nation and a law, is now to reveal himself in the most personal way possible - in the form of a man. Until now God's blessings have been reserved mostly fot a chosen people, but now they are to become available to all people in every generation.

Who is this Christ, this Messiah? His name is Jesus. His symbolic name, Immanual (meaning "God with us"), signifies his deity. He is man, to be sure, but God as well; and he is God - the God of Creation - but man as well. God lowers himself so that man might be elevated. He leaves heaven so that man might enter it. To man, who cannot begin to understand the ways of God, it is clearly a great mystery. But what a marvelous and wonderful mystery it is!

Wow! Now that has got to get you excited! I read that back in October and I said to myself that I would post this right before Christmas. It's very encouraging and full of hope. Merry Christmas!

Bird Dogging

I worked until 7 last night, which isn't too bad considering we had about 7000 customers out like 20 inches of snow. I had to drive around and do this thing called "bird-dogging" where we get a list of addresses of customers who have wires down or partial power and verify if they are MGE wires or just cable or telelphone wires. So I was walking around in peoples backyards with potentialy dangerous wires laying in the snow right next to me. No big deal. Then when I came home I had to shovel the heaviest snow ever for 2 hours. Made my night. My arms are so sore now. Then it took 2 hours to drive to work this morning, perfect. Lets just say I'm a little on edge right now and the 2 cups of coffee I just had probably isn't going help.