God Does Things Backwards

4Joseph went up from Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David, called Bethlehem, because he was David's descendant, 5to be included in the census with Mary, to whom he was engaged to be married.  She was pregnant.  6While they were there she was due to deliver the baby.  7She gave birth to her firstborn son, wrapped him in cloths, and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the guest room. – Luke 2:4-7
I've titled this podcast "God Does Things Backwards." It's a slight revision of a broadcast I first recorded for Christmas, 2002.

Some of you may think that title is almost sacrilegious. But I want to ask you: "How would you choose to invade your enemy's kingdom and challenge his greatest weapons?" I don't know about you, but I expect that babies would have little part in my battle plan.

Isaiah tells us:
8For my ways are not like your ways,
nor are my thoughts like your thoughts.
9As the sky is higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
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