Bibledoorajar looks at Single Most Difficult Moments

     Jacob had returned to Bethel and had received two great promises from God. He was to continue the journey to the land of Promise. Yet, he was soon to face the single most difficult experience of his life's journey. His wife was pregnant and frail. Her nurse, Deborah was old. She died at a time when Rachel needed her the most. So, we see Jacob burying her under an oak and calling it the Oak of Tears. I am sure that Rachel's sorrows increased at this point, but still the group journeyed onward. Finally word came from the rear echelon: Rachel can go no further. She bore her last son, attached to his name that of sorrow, and then she died. But Jacob, having reached her, took the boy and declared that he would be called Benjamin and would be like a staff to Jacob in his old age. It is clear from this story that the purity and holiness that God longs for in His people sometimes is seared in by sorrows.

  This week we celebrate the birth of another son--God's Son. The Bible says that of this Son,  and the future that lay before him, his earthly mother pondered. That is, she weighed in her mind with thoroughness and care his chances of success in life.  This week, we all have a chance to rethink how the baby Jesus turned out. What do you think and how has Truth Himself impacted your life's journey? As the debate rages about what to call the holiday this week, I hope you are secure in your weighing of it. For me, the baby was real and His was the most successful life of all. He came just as the world needed Him the most. Therefore, I say, Merry, Merry Christmas!