Make no mistake: God wants to be the one to deliver his people, not the alliances they form with other nations. But how does he do it? The genealogy list in today's reading might seem like something we don't particularly take any great spiritual truth from, but consider this one: God really was made man. He didn't step away from man or make himself something else. He had grandmothers and great-great-great-grandfathers, and he was part of the human story. This was God's method of delivery: to join us and lead us to the Kingdom.