Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it.

Hey, everyone. Welcome back to a year in the Bible. I'm Beth, and I'm here with my co-host, Alexa.

Hi, friends. Throughout this week, we have been

studying Micah 5-2 and Matthew 2 4 through 6. We have seen how Christ came to fulfill this prophecy

that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem and rule over his people. Today we're going to talk

about how we can practically apply the things we've learned from these passages. That's right.

So I really liked one of the

questions from this study day in the Christenol scripture study. So that's where I thought we could

focus our application today. So on page 122, the first question reads, Micah's prophecy brought hope

in the midst of Israel's despair. How does the truth of Jesus' death and resurrection bring hope to any despair you may be facing?

And I found this question really encouraging. It really forced me to sit with the areas where I tend to despair.

These areas change with different seasons that I'm in. But right now, as silly as it sounds, I've been despairing over staying on top of all of the little everyday task that I have in my life. It's been hard to keep up with all the things that I feel like I need to be doing, like being an attentive mom, being a good employee, keeping my house clean, exercising regularly, being present with my husband, ministering in my church, supporting my friends, and I just get really bogged down with all of that stuff. And I find myself feeling

that I just can't keep up with it all and that leads me to despair. But Christ has already won.

He is already enthroned and I can place my hope and this truth. So even just reading this question

this morning convicted me that I needed to kind of rethink my priorities and my values and I don't

need to stay on top of everything all the time,

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