The Wait Is Over
In honor of our pastor’s sermon yesterday, I’m posting an old article I did years ago for an Advent booklet at a former church.
The subject is Luke 2:25-35.
The movie The Ten Commandments has a great scene, which, amazingly, involved Charlton Heston. In it, an Egyptian guard in the mud fields has stabbed an ancient Israelite for insubordination. As the old man dies, he laments about a prayer that has gone unanswered. When asked which prayer, he says, “That before God closed my eyes in death, I might behold the deliverer.” Cecil B. DeMille had the irony running as thick as the mud, because the old man’s dying words are spoken to Moses, the Once and Future Deliverer.