Accept The Gift

Accept The Gift.

We can either curse the day of our resurrection or embrace and bless it.

Job cursed the day that He was born, even from his mother’s womb but still found himself blessed exponentially by God for still trusting in Him, although dreading the day of his arrival into this life.

Now take John the Baptist… There is some conjecture that while six months into her pregnancy, John’s mother Elisabeth was carrying a stillborn baby, yet to be named.  His Father Zechariah had been silenced by God and unable to speak; and life appeared tumultuous in the household; until the Lord showed up.

Elisabeth was visited by her cousin Mary, the Mother of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and at that encounter was the first mentioning of the Holy Spirit that caused John to leap within the womb, because Mary was also pregnant at the time with Christ.

John could have died during the birthing process, just kept on sleeping, as Christ absolved the disciples when they kept falling asleep after he repeatedly asked that they stay awake with Him and pray at His hour of need, but he leaped to life; until his death, to prepare the way for the coming Messiah.

“Behold, The Lamb of God, which take away the sin of the world.” (John 1:29), He extolled to all who would hear.

John the Baptist accepted the gift of the calling and Jesus declared of him, “For I say unto you, among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist.

Who was blessed more?  Job, who was blessed doubly? Or John who was beheaded after being jailed, and did nothing to deserve his treatment?

One cursed the day and the other accepted the gift. And we speak of both as blessed and highly favored; and touted as greats of the Bible.

Neither are lacking anything in Heaven nor did either of them on earth, their perspectives were different but the ultimate goal was Christ.  Job feared what came upon Him, and John didn't fear anyone or anything that came against what he was created to do; yet they both were blessed.

Just remember that blessings come from the Lord and to praise Him for He is good.

When we accepted Christ as Lord and Savior we were resurrected into a new life for Him.  Will you curse or bless the day that the Lord has made?