We began this Advent season with a focus on
the word “expectations”. It started with the fact that we often live according
to our expectations. It’s kind of like “Murphy’s Law”… If we expect to fail, we
will live our lives in fear of failure. If we expect great things from God, we
will live as if God could do something at any time! There are a lot of things that affect the way
we live and act, but the greatest factor, is our expectations. It has been said
that we get exactly out of life what we expect to get; and, we will get out of
this Christmas season exactly what we expect. If we expect to be grumpy and
broke…if we expect to be stressed out and unprepared…we will be! I have set out to try and change our expectations
this Christmas - in and through the wonderful Christmas story we have all come
to know. Probably the most important
point for us to remember is that when Jesus was born, King Herod and all the
people were not expecting God to do anything!
They had lost the expectation of God’s promise.
In giving some signs and expectations about
the “last days” - the day of His return - Jesus said; “No one knows the day or
the hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As
it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For
in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and
giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing
about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is
how it will be at the coming of the Son of man”. The question then becomes;
“Are we any more ready today than they were?”
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