In this last week of November, we're pleased to share with you an audio sample of our Advent devotional, Unto Us, 25 Advent devotions about the Messiah.

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Day 1, Exodus from Exile by Jared Kennedy

Isaiah 43, 16 through 19.

Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters,

who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior, they lie down, they cannot rise.

They are extinguished, quenched like a wick. Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old.

Behold, I am doing a new thing. Now it springs forth. Do you not perceive it. I will make a way

in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

As the calendar nears December, we pull the lights out of the garage and the boxes of decorations from the attic. We set up the tree, hang the stockings, and start the annual Advent countdown.

We bookmark the holiday playlist, finish or begin, the shopping,

and mark down all the party dates. But in our Christmas busyness, do we see how God is at

work in our daily lives? Do we remember how he has been at work over the past year?

We can see God working in the past and present.

We can see God working in the past and present, but the prophet Isaiah also saw God at work

in the future.

He called his firstborn son, Scheerererheeshub, Isaiah 7.3, a name that means a remnant will return.

This name was a surprising choice. After all, when little Cheyere was born, God's people

still lived in the promised land. Isaiah named his children and wrote his prophecies well before Judah's exile to Babylon.

So on the eighth day after Cher Yashub's birth, when the boy's name was announced at his dedication,

Isaiah's Jerusalem neighbors must have thought, hmm, return from where?

The people couldn't see what God was doing. They were blind to

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