Journey to Jesus: The Seed of the Woman

Before I get started I wanted to post the new devotions for the week. You can download them by clicking here.

We continue down this journey to our Lord by turning from the "suffering servant" of Isaiah 53 to Jesus as the "seed of the woman". Where do we get this term from? Genesis 3:15 tells us that the seed of the woman will crush the serpants head. We are told in Revelation that the serpant is Satan himself in the garden. But the seed is Jesus Christ. In fact all of the Bible contains what we call "seed theology". Satan is constantly trying to destroy the seed of the woman so that the Messiah would not be able to save his people from their sins. It is an epic spiritual battle!

The Christmas account in Matthew tells of how Herod wanted to destroy the Seed of Woman by sending out soldiers to kill all 2 year old boys and under. What a tragic story and picture of man's depravity. But through the work of the Holy Spirit, the faithfulness of a teenage girl and Jewish man, the Seed of the Woman, the fragile little infant would be protected and God's salvation plan accomplished.

The Christmas story is incredible. Read it again and pray that the Lord would allow it fall on you in a fresh way. This week, in the devotions, we will wrap up last weeks message. We could spend months on Isaiah 53 alone but the journey must go on for now. Perhaps we can return to it, or perhaps you could do your own study on it! This week we will begin to read the Christmas account from Scripture as we see how Christ came into the world to be the Savior of his people...to save us from our sins. Amen, to God be the glory alone!