Manger instead of Anger, remember the "M"

Sunday November 27th Isaiah 64: 3 For when you did awesome things that we did not expect, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you. 4 Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him. This was the expectation in Isaiah. When God returned to earth, it would be a show of force such as the world had never seen. The sky would turn, the mountains tremble, everyone would know that God was coming and everyone would know whose God it was that was coming. God had a different idea. It was a baby in a manger. Sometimes we also want a God of Anger not Manger. Sometimes we want a God who will show all those others who is tougher. But then, sometimes we get just a glimpse of how tough God really is. Sometimes we get a glimpse of how much harder it is to come as a loving God in a manger rather than the mighty God in anger. It is then we know that God calls us to that kind of toughness also.