Four hundred years of your silence is four generations, Father. That’s long enough to extinguish a narrative, but it didn’t. The words of the prophets and the promise of the covenant echoed through generations of the faithful. I just stop and thank You for the miracle of those who stood in the deafening silence, seeking their Messiah. Now, we look toward His returning and the mercy of the New Covenant. May we, too, carry through these years to serve Him without fear. May we desire a godly purpose to pursue as we wait. May we praise You for every new morning as one day closer to the coming of the Lord. May we experience your good pleasure in the cycle of our days. Be glorified in our praise. I pray in the name and authority of Jesus the Messiah, according to your good and perfect will. Amen.
“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old, that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us; to show the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant, the oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve him without fear,” (Luke 1: 68-74 ESV)