Scripture verse – Jeremiah
33:14
“The days are surely coming, says the Lord,
when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of
Judah”.
These words of scripture reflect a promise
that stretches far back into history… But, at the same time reaches far forward
into times yet to come. Today we once again light the first candle of Advent.
We are preparing for a journey; a journey that will take us from the days of
promise, to the days of their fulfillment in Bethlehem’s stable, and the
expectation of a promise yet to be fulfilled in the second advent of Jesus
Christ, our Lord.
God’s promises are kept, but not always in
the way we expect. He does not always come to us in some miraculous display of
power and authority. Sometimes He comes in the still, small, events of everyday
life. God was born into our world as an infant, and by faith we choose to
believe who He was and why He was “Emmanuel” – God with us.
Advent is a season of hope, the kind of
hope found in the Old Testament among those whom God brought out of bondage. In
these days we need some hope. Let’s begin our Advent with the hope and the
expectation that something wonderful is going to happen…And, let’s prepare to
once again allow God to fill us with the “good news of exceeding joy!”
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