Look Ahead

It can be a scary thing, I know, but "we all carry inside us people who came before us." (Ian Callahan). This and more are evident in Zachariah's hymn - called the "Benedictus," found in Luke 1; he spoke of past promises and future Blessing: "To show mercy [as He promised] to our fathers, and to remember His holy covenant [the promised blessing], the oath which He swore to Abraham our father, to grant us that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, might serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him all our days." (Luke 1:72-75).  Zachariah means "God remembers," and Elizabeth (his wife) means "oath of God," and John (their son) means "the grace of God." The names in this one family tell the Gospel: God's Grace - undeserved and unearned - secured at The Cross in the Person of Jesus Christ. The Season's message is The Cross.  Look ahead, as Zachariah-Elizabeth-John did, and celebrate!