“To live is Christ” means we have the mighty rushing wind of God’s Spirit in us.
Learning to live by the indwelling life of Christ.
“To live is Christ” means we have the mighty rushing wind of God’s Spirit in us.
God hasn’t left us alone in our waiting for the advent of Christ. He has left us with his inspired word.
Like Nathan before him, it is the name of Jesus that reminds us of all of our sin and all of God’s grace at the same time. It is the name of Jesus that will save his family, you and me, from our sins.
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.