a christmas story

hmm. what a day to start a blog. i'm hoping that one day all of these little moments will turn into a book. we'll see. anyways, yesterday as i was driving home from richmond, which is one of my new favorite places, i listened to a sermon on daniel 2. it was about king nebuchadnezzar's dream, which actually prophesied Jesus' birth. it says "in the time of those kings (meaning Herod), the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. it will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. this is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands.."verses 44-45. this rock being cut out of the mountain meant Jesus, and when Jesus was born, he started a kingdom that will never end, heaven. how cool that nebuchadnezzar, someone who hated God, would have a dream that signified Jesus' birth, and a kingdom that could not be set up by human hands, because God created it. who would have thought daniel 2 was a christmas story... not me!