Today is the First Sunday in Advent. The way the calendar falls, we will have four full weeks to prepare our hearts for Christmas Day - the day we celebrate Christ's Coming. We begin in Mark's Gospel:
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
2 As it is written in Isaiah the prophet,
“Behold, I send my messenger before your face,
who will prepare your way,
3 the voice of one crying in the wilderness:
‘Prepare the way of the Lord,
make his paths straight,’”
2 As it is written in Isaiah the prophet,
“Behold, I send my messenger before your face,
who will prepare your way,
3 the voice of one crying in the wilderness:
‘Prepare the way of the Lord,
make his paths straight,’”
John Mark records: This is how it all started: This is the beginning of the Good News of how the Son of God was incarnated and came down to earth. He then immediately refers us back to the prophecy in Isaiah about the forerunner who would come calling out" Prepare the way!" In other words: "Get ready. You've got to get ready for Christ's coming. Over the next few weeks we will have plenty of distractions from what really matters - lots of ways we can spend our time, money, and energy which really miss the point. Christ is coming. Stop and think about what that really means for you, for the world. Are you getting ready?
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