Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! :)
The past few weeks, I have been meditating a lot on Old Testament promises of Christ and this past Sunday, I had the joy of fellowshiping at Parkside Church in Chagrin Falls, Ohio and hearing Alistair Begg preach. He taught on Christ and the Old Testament, and explained how "the Old Testament is a story in search of an ending"
Here it is, the Christ, we celebrate His coming...and I'm so thankful that we can look back at the Old Testament and understand it with greater clarity than it's human authors by seeing it through the lens of Christ. "We can't understand Jesus without the Old Testament, and we can't understand the Old Testament without Jesus."~Alistair Begg He then took a short look back through the Old Testament to a few of the pictures of Christ-in the Exodus, the Kings and the words of the minor prophets. It was a sweet message and he brought it all in center around the gospel. :) Here is the passage he was preaching on-Zechariah's prayer in Luke. And I pray that Zechariah's prayer would be mine and yours and that we would wonder at the beauty of God's promises all fulfilled and embodied in the person and work of Christ!

"And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying,
“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
for he has visited and redeemed his people
and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,
as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,
that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us;
to show the mercy promised to our fathers
and to remember his holy covenant,
the oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us
that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him
all our days. " Luke 1:67-75