Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Our Advent Journey

This is the Advent journey, to breathe deeply of God's love in the promise of the manger and the cross. This is the hope and the promise so we can indeed enjoy our own journey from birth to death soaking in God's glory and the beauty he has laid out for our enjoyment.

I hope everyone has had a chance to truly reflect on the meaning of Advent and gained new knowledge and wisdom. I love to visualize a manger at the foot of a cross. It can describe the journey from life to death, being a newborn in Christ, moving from this life to eternal life or God's fullfillment of his promise to send a son who will be our savior.

I hope you reflected on how everything had to fall exactly into place in God's timing, at His descretion. Other things had to happen first, including the geneology of Jesus through his eartlhy father and birth mother. God came down to earth to live with man as man. He brought his teaching to people who could believe, follow and take the word out into the world.

I hope you reflected on how people must have received this message. The prophets told of the coming of a Messiah for generations, yet when He came, most could not accept it. He was feared by the authorities who threatetened to kill him. Seekers came following a star. Shepherds watched and Angels sang. What a sight. Joyous for believers, unsettling for non-believers.

It's still that way today. Believers celebrate the season in joyful expectation and reverence while non-believers celebrate the season, but not the reason. We are all on different advent journeys, depending on where we are in our own belief systems and spiritual maturation. I'd just like to invite all to follow the star and behold the most magnificent miracle, the baby destined to be our savior. Look inside the manger and let the infant's heart light beam into your own, bring warmth to your soul, love to your life and bring you closer to Him and His wonderful promises. Come, Lord Jesus.

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