One Special Birth Announcement

• Isaiah 9:1 (NASB)
• Isaiah 9:2 (NASB)
• Isaiah 9:3 (NASB)
• Isaiah 9:4 (NASB)
• Isaiah 9:5 (NASB)

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Birth Announcements are so cool to get (and especially to give out!). But they all have the same thing in common: they are all about this wonderful bundle of joy that has arrived for us to love, cherish, provide for and nurture. Imagine getting an announcement that completely turns the tables; declaring how this bundle of joy is going to love us, cherish us, nurture us and provide for the deepest longings of our soul. Now that would be stunning! Yet, that is exactly what we read here. This birth would be the source of light for our darkness and death (:2); the source of joy for our despair (:3); the source of victory for our defeat (:4,5). For all those who have ever sat in darkness, despair, defeat and the shadow of death that’s One Special Birth Announcement!

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