"... and after they were brought into Babylon, Jeconiah begat Shealtiel..."
It's easy to think, when you're not operating on all spiritual cylinders, God's plan simply shuts down. Some fear loosing all things spiritual when they enter into their exile experience. God is gone, they say. How can He carry on through this?
Yet, here in the genealogy of Christ, we see Jesus' family line dating all the way back to the Abraham, boring faithfully from one generation to the next - through judges, priests, and kings - through righteous, wicked, royal, and gentile people - nothing interfered with God's plans to birth forth his purposes in Jesus. He used it all.
Perhaps you yourself have found yourself in a spiritual babylon of sorts, a grayish season of exile where you wonder if he has left and forsaken you. Perhaps fear that your sacred history (or even God's future glory to be revealed) has become wasted, derailed, or permanently side-stepped because of something you did or didn't do?
Don't believe it. God's ancestry ran strong through the captivity in Babylon, and it will remain strong in your exile as well. He is much bigger than your worse sin and sees far further than your grandest dream!
Give him praise for that!
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