Arrival: Day 2

December 2, 2018

“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”- Genesis 3:15

         I barely want to try and imagine this moment. The moment when sin crept in and the created ones realized they were now separated from him. That moment when lying and blaming came as second nature instead of communing and walking with the Creator in his garden. How hopeless! Yet before the sentence ends the Creator speaks words of hope. Where, just sometime before, His words created all that Adam and Eve see, now His voice is declaring something to come. Something to hope for! The Messiah is mentioned right after the separation between man and God happens. The promise of the enemy being crushed brings hope. The separation that Adam and Eve felt, we no longer have to take part in. We have access to this One who crushes the head of the enemy. We have a hope! He is coming again and this time the head of the enemy will not only be crushed but he will be destroyed forever. As we look back on this separation we all once experienced, let’s thank the Father for calling us out of the dominion of darkness and into the Kingdom of His Son... the Kingdom that has no end and will never fail. As I wait to meet this King of Kings I remember the words spoken by Paul:

"For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently."- Romans 8:24-25

Unlike those in the Old Testament, we are no longer waiting for salvation! We have access to His throne now! Instead, we wait to see Him face to face. We hope for His ultimate redemption!