All those listed above include fourteen generations from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the Babylonian exile, and fourteen from the Babylonian exile to the Messiah.

Matthew 1:17 NLT

All those people just living their lives, some famous, powerful, some ordinary, unknown, some who were looked down on, judged, some who parts of their lives are recorded for us, some who are just names in a list. 

None of them were perfect.

Yet here they are, part of a Bigger Story.

Fourteen generations from Abraham to David, fourteen to the exile, and fourteen more to Jesus, the Messiah. This is not an accident, and isn't this the way when we look back we can see where God has been at work, where heaven has broken through, and we can see we're part of a Bigger Story. 

But when we're in the middle of it, most of the time we're just living our lives in the best way we can. 

Yet we are part of God's Bigger Story. 

We are enough. 

We are Beloved.

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