Christian, how are you spending your advent season? The king is coming. Christ will return. Are you making way for him to be your king? Or, like Solomon, are you just a wind chasing fool, trying to rule your own destiny and find your own meaning?
Learning to live by the indwelling life of Christ.
Christian, how are you spending your advent season? The king is coming. Christ will return. Are you making way for him to be your king? Or, like Solomon, are you just a wind chasing fool, trying to rule your own destiny and find your own meaning?
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?
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.
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?
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?
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.