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My Family
This weekend I got to see many family.
I got to see my father and step-mother, my step mothers family, my last living grandmother, some distant cousins, a few of John’s family, and even my oldest son and his wife came for Thanksgiving.
It was an amazing experience hear stories about loved ones, and sharing stories from my childhood and of my children.
I am a sentimental person, especially when it comes to my family and family treasures.
I think this is something that we all can do if think about our family legacy.
Think about those that shaped us into the people we are, and think about those that we have had a hand in raising or leading to become the people they are becoming.
As we move on from our time of being grateful to God for sending us His son and all Jesus has done and will do for us, we take a step back.
Over Advent we will think about Jesus’s family stories, the ancestry, the community and those who shaped his human existence.
Pray and Read Isaiah 11:1-9
Who is Jesse?
Well when we go back to the beginning of the time of the kings of Israel, Jesse appears as a farmer with many sons.
In 1st Samuel, once the first King, King Saul begun to displease God, the prophet of the Lord Samuel was told to go see Jesse because it would be one of his sons who God has chosen to lead reign over Israel.
Let’s look at this story from 1 Samuel 16:1-13
This is a big deal because, you see, Saul was chosen by the people to be their king.
However, this time, God was choosing the King for His people.
Jesse’s youngest and scrawniest son David was the one God had is eyes on.
Of course the one that seemed the most unlikely, God would make King.
David reigned over Israel well, with a few personal indiscretions.
The heirs to David’s thrown, however, made even more mistakes with each following generation.
This led to the exile.
You see, each king that came after David, did worse then the one before with only a few exceptions.
Therefore, the family tree and their family legacy was cut off.
The analogy that Isaiah uses is of a tree.
The family tree was cut down.
However, a new growth appeared in the stump.
A new king, from the line of David would be born.
God was still keeping His end of the covenant with Israel.
Christ’s legacy, in terms of being a better King than the kings that came before Him, all rest on the fact that He is the Messiah, Son of God.
Being God’s Son means that He was set to fulfill the prophecy to be better than any human king that had come before Him for God’s people.
Where the kings before had failed in terms of their righteousness, Jesus was righteous.
Where Solomon was full of God’s wisdom, yet lacking in holiness, Jesus was wise and good.
Where the other kings failed in proper judgement and chose war and violence, Jesus is the Prince of Peace.
This is where the idea of the Jesse Tree came from.
One of the fun things that we will be doing this Advent is learning from the Jesse Tree.
Starting with the creation story in Genesis, we will take story each day of December leading up to Christmas to tell the family stories of Jesus of Nazareth, Son of God, Mary and Joseph.
We all hope that our children will be better than we are.
I was proud to hear my son and his wife Holly talk about how they were building a life together.
They starting using Adult words like “mortgage”, and “car payments”, and “investing” even.
It was inspiring to talk to my cousin and my dad about different family members and their personalities and life shaping events.
I am proud of the audacity of some of my older family members and amazed at what some of my ancestors have overcome in their lives.
And there are stories of some who may not have lived as stellar of lives for us to be proud of them, but those stories shape us nonetheless.
Some of us may not come from good families.
Some of us may not have a family that we can be proud of.
That heartache it is not anything to be ashamed of, for that means that you have overcome a lot in your life.
Your story is worth telling.
We share those stories with one another and hope that future generations will do better than we and live lives with stories worth telling.
What are your family stories?
What do you want your future generations to learn from you?
Looking at your life, what stories stand out most to you?
What lessons have you learned?
Would you be willing to share your family stories, or your own life stories of life lessons learned and blessings you have recieved?
I want to invite everyone to take the time and write down a story from your life and sent it to me.
With your permission, we will begin to post those stories on the bulletin board outside beside the Jesse Tree.
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