An app on Facebook keeps asking me to play a game … it wants to tell me what 2024 will hold for me. Part of me thinks I would love to know what 2024 holds. Another part of me knows that if I knew what was about to happen I would either worry about it if it was bad or try to make it happen earlier if it was good. Either way would not be good.
Add to that what the past few years have been like and what the political climate has been lately for the 2024 presidential election, and I am sure I do not want to know!
A recent verse of the day reminded me, however, that I do know something about 2024 … and 2025 … and 2026 … and ….
“Then the angel told her: Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. Now listen: You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will call His name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end.” [Luke 1:30-33 HCSB]
God’s emissary, the Angel Gabriel, proclaimed to Mary something we tend to forget, or perhaps just overlook at times. Not only would Mary bring forth a son who would be great and would be called the Son of the Most High … He also would be given a throne. AND a Kingdom. AND that Kingdom will have no end.
No matter what 2024 holds for me or for the nation, the kingdoms of this world will bow to the eternal, everlasting, mighty Kingdom of the Lord God Most High. That may be in 2024, or 2025, or …? But it will happen! Amen & Hallelujah!
