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Hey You!
As much as I love this season, I dislike the effort I have to go through to have everything fall into place.
Because it involves cleaning, rearranging, moving, displacing, my stuff.
Just when I have things cleaned up from the last event, then this ordeal.
You know, everything is stacked just right in that storage closet or attic, garage, and the next item added might be the one that ends the Jenga winning streak.
But thinking of this reminds me that even though we know the season is designed to help the world focus on Jesus more than they normally do, it can digress to a season of only material gifts and our possessions.
Why is this?
Why do we have the tendency to digress?
Is is the season or something else?
Why We Become So Attached to Our Belongings
Francine Russo, “Our Stuff, Ourselves,” Scientific American (5-18), Pages 66-71; submitted by Jerry de Luca, Montreal West, Montreal, Canada
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Our excessively materialistic culture has not gone unnoticed by researchers.
If you were to roundup the primary research the findings would tell us this.
Material things don’t just fill basic emotional needs:
In fact, our possessions do not just make us feel secure by substituting for important people in our lives; we actually see these objects as an extension of ourselves.
We believe—or perhaps act as if we believe—that in some ways our very essence permeates our things.
If these things become damaged or lost, we ourselves become damaged or lost.
People can and do let us down, but not things.
“That worn sweatshirt is not human.
It does not show us compassion.
Neither does a teddy bear or a coffee mug.
But, scientists point out, these objects are utterly reliable, always present and under our control.
We can count on them.”
According to Professor Ian Norris, “Other people are an extension of our self-concept.
When those relationships are unstable or unfulfilling, people may lack the connection they need and attach meaning to products that fill the void.”
There’s been an enormous amount of research on the widespread problem with hoarding.
One of the main factors is: “The presence of disorders such as depression and anxiety, which make people emotionally vulnerable.
Hoarding sufferers use their belongings to safeguard their identity, to ‘soothe their fears’ and to build ‘fortresses’ to make them feel more secure.”
Scientific American (5-18)
There is someone who won’t let us down.
We are celebrating him this season.
Let’s look into Jesus some more today.
It’s not the season, it’s because of the broken relationships we experience in this broken world
But as we go to scripture, to help with restoring the most important relationship in this season to do such a thing.
Look!
This Deliverer will also be called the Everlasting Father.
Many people are puzzled by this title because the Messiah, God’s Son, is distinguished in the Trinity from God the Father.
How can the Son be the Father?
Several things must be noted in this regard.
The third name is one word in Hebrew, combining two ideas in one concept.
It is possible to translate it as
noun
an adjective and noun “Everlasting Father” (ʾăbîʿad) Ahvahd
“Everlasting Father” (ʾăbîʿad) Ahvahd
as a sentence “my father [is] eternal,”
c) The third name is one word in Hebrew, combining two ideas in one concept.
It is possible to translate it as an adjective and noun “Everlasting Father” (ʾăbîʿad), as a sentence “my father [is] eternal,” or as a genitive phrase “father of eternity.”
“Father” is a relatively rare way of describing God in the Hebrew Bible (; , ; ; ; ) and a rarer way of describing a king (), though the Israelites are frequently called God’s sons ().
This tendency may be a conscious attempt to avoid pagan images of the gods giving birth to people.
Since fathers were the heads of tribes who wisely led the people, it is a fitting title for a ruler if one wants to avoid some of the negative connotations of kingship.
“Everlasting” is a title that does not apply to any human ruler, except that the Davidic promise speaks of one who will rule on the throne of David forever ().
Since 9:7 refers to a person ruling forever on the throne of David, the “everlasting father” in 6 must be the same ruler.
or as a genitive phrase “father of eternity.”
Because of the way this is constructed, its an idiom used to help us understand the deliverer.
IDIOM a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light).
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