Hope is at the Heart of Christmas

The prophet Isaiah writes one of the most classic of all Old Testament prophecies about the coming birth of Christ. The passage that he writes is born of gloom and darkness. The world had felt the full weight of sin and it had wreaked havoc on all of creation. What Isaiah offered in chapter 9 was something God's people needed more than anything. Hope. Hope that one day someone would come to make all things right and restore what had been broken. The birth of Jesus was the fulfillment of that hope and it offers us hope in our lives today.