Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Luke 2:34-38
by: Linda Lawton.
Simeon’s prophecy must have been very difficult for Mary to hear, and probably for Joseph as well. Though intimately acquainted with the miraculous circumstances of his conception, I doubt that either of them had really thought much about what his adult life would be like, nor would they really have understood what it meant for Jesus to be Immanuel—God with us. To think that their tiny son, barely a month old, whom they already loved dearly, would one day be bitterly opposed and that He would suffer cruelly, must have broken their hearts.