"Strange Way To Save The World"

It came upon me how God uses the unlikely. 

Through the years I have been blessed to find my calling in life through various works, with the calling of the Holy Spirit.  But, how does one find that out about themselves.  How do they individually fulfill God’s plan?

In a time of oppression and suffering His people called upon Him to send not just a messenger nor prophet, they called and ached for a Messiah, a Christ.  Even with their tears and prayers they could not have imagined how God would bless the world with His only Son.  His people looked to an Earthly king, a man of war, a great warrior.  Instead they got a man of peace and prayer.  They, a prayerful people, didn’t get what they expected. 

Mean time they went along.  I can’t imagine how they felt, longing for a savior who was promised but had not come.  Did they feel lost?  Deserted?  Defeated?  I suppose like people today, they may have.  But hope abided.  They knew they had an awesome God, But I would guess they didn’t know that they had a God who’s plan included a baby.

This song tells of Joseph looking inward and wondering.....  He had encounters with angels and took a wife that others may have let be stoned.  He was a man  of compassion and understanding.  He was a forgiving man.  He initially had no knowledge of Mary and her story.  Yet he looked to her with a compassion, truly God given.  How confused he must of felt.  Unworthy, certainly; confused definitely.

As he went along his life it became clear his life was so much more than he ever knew.  I have often told people that they are often unaware of their gifts given in God’s love or the fact that has a mission and a plan for their lives.  So many people think they are just “living”. To some extent that is true, we all feel that.  But we are of great sacred worth and value to God, as much as Joseph and Mary.  They were ordinary people, living a life of spiritual hope and Godly love.  Yet God has chosen you as much as he has chosen them.

Where you do not physically have His Son, you walk for His Son.  You are the manifestation of The One who loves you more than you love yourself.

Yes, indeed God did choose a “Strange Way to Save the World”.  He chose the most humanly understandable way there was.  A child is born helpless and requires love and tenderness to grow.  A child needs to be nurtured and guided.  Jesus had His Father in Heaven and his earthly parents.  God gives us children in confirmation of a lingering hope for mankind.  God trust us to show them the way as he showed His own Son.

How ordinary.  A birth of a child. 

I know of a gal who is pregnant with her fifth child.  She is a Godly woman who raises Godly children.  I can see in the eyes of her children the promise of so much.  That they will one day rule this nation, and care for those like me.  This isn’t easy always, but it certainly is Godly.

What will your children grow to be?  What will your grandchildren, nieces and nephews be?  Ordinary maybe, but in many ways so was Jesus.  He was fully man, like our children.  He carried the same emotions and trials that children often do.  It may be hard to put Jesus in that picture.  But, think of it.  A mom, dad and child doing the best they can.  Living each day in worship with God, surprised by their callings, open to His leadings.

Yes, it was strange.  For a people who wanted a warrior king, they got a Prince of Peace.  His power continues to unfold each and every day.  Not by the sword, but by the love.  How were they to know that a babe born in Bethlehem could save the world from itself?

I sing praises of glory that He did.


This song is sung by 4Him and is on the WOW Christmas CD


"Strange Way To Save The World"

Sure he must have been surprised
At where this road had taken him
'Cause never in a million lives
Would he had dreamed of Bethlehem
And standing at the manger
He saw with his own eyes
The message from the angel come to life
And Joseph said...

Why me, I'm just a simple man of trade
Why Him, with all the rulers in the world
Why here inside a stable filled with hay
Why her, she's just an ordinary girl
Now I'm not one to second guess what angels have to say
But this is such a strange way to save the world

To think of how it could have been
If Jesus had come as He deserved
There would have been no Bethlehem
No lowly shepherds at His birth
But Joseph knew the reason
The love had to reach so far
And as he held the Savior in his arms
He must have thought.

Why me, I'm just a simple man of trade
Why Him, with all the rulers in the world
Why here inside a stable filled with hay
Why her, she's just an ordinary girl
Now I'm not one to second guess what angels have to say
But this is such a strange way to save the world


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A Strange Way to Save the World
4Him
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