Luke 1:5 · World English Bible
There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
God works inside real history, under datable rulers, among people with family lines and job assignments. Salvation does not drop from the sky onto a blank stage.
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God works inside real history, under datable rulers, among people with family lines and job assignments. Salvation does not drop from the sky onto a blank stage. It grows out of a covenant God kept for centuries with one people, through ordinary faithful folk doing their turn of service.
Two old priestly lines meeting in one household is the whole prior arrangement gathered up and ready to be handed on. Everything the older worship pointed toward is about to be fulfilled, and it comes through a couple who stayed faithful in a small assignment with no sign that anything larger was coming.
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What small faithful thing are you doing now that you may never see the point of?
The great things rest on the small ones done right. Attend to the root and the way grows out of it.
The journey of a thousand miles begins under your feet. Big things are handled while they are still small.
You are not required to finish the work, and you are not free to walk away from it. Your turn is yours whether or not you see the end.
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