What about us? Where does our shame go? Where does our trauma find its resting place? Is it in the promise of another child who was born to die so that all of us Bathshebas and all of us Davids might live?
Tag: Advent
An Ancestral Advent Day 13: The Son of David.
No, being God’s adopted sons and daughters doesn’t make life any less difficult. Yes, we will suffer with Christ as Paul says in Romans 8. But we don’t fall back into fear. We move forward as sons.
An Ancestral Advent Day 12: The Son of Jesse.
I can honestly say that truth of a future peace in the presence of the Branch is what gets me through every day, not just the holidays, and especially the dark days. What about you?
An Ancestral Advent Day 11: The Son of Boaz and Ruth.
In a world of darkness, in the long waiting for the salvation of our God, will your love story, the story of your union with Christ, shine his light into that darkness around you?
An Ancestral Advent Day 10: The Son of Rahab.
Now we wait for the rescue. For the great advent. The world around us will shake and crumble. But our Beloved has seen our faith and will come just in time to bring us home to his land, his family, his heart.
An Ancestral Advent Day 9: The Son of Perez.
Christian, are you desperately reaching out your hand, grasping for what’s yours? Are you waiting impatiently for the glory God owes you? Are you managing your own rise to glory? Or are you waiting patiently for Jesus to burst forth out of your weakness in his timing?
To Live is Christ 