Someone recently posted an awkward article from The
Daily Mail on Facebook, [Tuesday, February 10th, 2015]. The headline
was, “The Archbishop of Canterbury's wife, her dozens of female lovers and a
very surprising peek behind the prim facade of Victorian Britain.”
Do you ever wonder about your own ancestors? Some of
mine were a dicey lot. I come, in part, from a long line of Scottish Border
Reivers who made their living stealing cattle from the English and providing
mercenary cavalry for European wars. Some of my more immediate ancestors were
alcoholics who ended their lives in suicide.
But frankly, what of it? Did you ever consider what
the ancestors of Jesus were like? How about the disgusting story of Judah and
his sons Er and Onan, and their poor wife Tamar? Or, how about the story of
King Manasseh, one of the most corrupt kings of Israel?
No matter where you dig in our ancestral backgrounds
you find dirt. But consider this. Christ Jesus, the Son of the Living God
became incarnate in a very human family with a very human lineage. That is what
it means to be human. He became one of us to carry us all back to our true
Father in Heaven.
Only
one thing is required of us, and that is to accept Him and His labour of love
on our behalf, and follow Him!
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