Wow...it has been a little while. As much as I love Christmas it always seems to be such a busy time of year with all the hustle and bustle of going here, going there, making cookies, visiting family, and the list goes on as we didn't even mention cleaning the house, or doing our everyday jobs. With that being said, let's get a little encouragement...
As you know, we are in the season of Advent in the church year. I would like to take a little time and reflect on what that means. The word Advent means "coming" or "arrival". Our whole focus at this time of the church year is the anticipated 1st coming of Christ as a little baby. But it is more than that also.
Advent is marked by a spirit of expectation, anticipation, preparation, and longing. There is a yearning for deliverance from the evils of this world, first expressed by Israelite slaves in Egypt as they cried out from their bitter oppression. It is the cry of those who have experienced the tyranny of injustice in a world under the curse of sin, yet who have hope of deliverance by a God who has heard the cries of oppressed slaves and brought deliverance!
It is that hope, however faint at times, that God, however distant He sometimes seems, will bring to the world the anticipation of a King who will rule with truth, justice, and righteousness over His people and His creation. It is in that hope with the once anticipated, and now we anticipate anew, the reign of an Anointed One, a Messiah, who will bring peace and justice and righteousness to the world.
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