We live in a world of disposables. Repair facilities are increasingly becoming a thing of the past when we buy new instead of fixing. Sometimes that’s the way we feel about ourselves, or worse, that’s the way others treat us when we no longer meet their needs.
Embedded in the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1 we find there are no disposable people. There was one who no one would want to claim in their family tree. She was shamefully abused and had to bear the unjust brunt of abuse and innuendo at the hands of a powerful man; yet in the family tree of Jesus, she maintains an honored position. Read 2 Samuel 11 for background on the message that flows from her at Christmas time. In Jesus there are no disposable people.
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of David the king. And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah,” (Matthew 1:1-6 ESV)
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