TRUE SIGHT
What do we notice in this season of Advent?
Do we even know it’s Advent: a time when the earth tilts from the sun; the days are darker sooner; and all creation, dormant, seems to pause, lean toward, wait for…a Savior?
A Savior who will save us from ourselves and put an end to death; a Savior who is God’s promise—one that only God can make and God can keep; a Savior who brings peace on earth, to this earth, with its centuries of wars; a Savior whose birth, sung by angels, heard by shepherds, is advertised as loudly as a star.
Would it be surprising if no one noticed; or, in this world, believed? How much more surprising…if someone did?
Helen Keller wrote:
This Advent may God give us eyes to see; ears to hear; and a heart to understand and turn to Him, Emmanuel, God with us: hidden in a song, a field, a star, a child.
To us, and to this world, a Savior’s born. I wonder: do we have the faith to see?And, if so, the courage to follow where He leads?
Wishing you a blessed Christmas,
A Pastor in the Desert
Do we even know it’s Advent: a time when the earth tilts from the sun; the days are darker sooner; and all creation, dormant, seems to pause, lean toward, wait for…a Savior?
A Savior who will save us from ourselves and put an end to death; a Savior who is God’s promise—one that only God can make and God can keep; a Savior who brings peace on earth, to this earth, with its centuries of wars; a Savior whose birth, sung by angels, heard by shepherds, is advertised as loudly as a star.
Would it be surprising if no one noticed; or, in this world, believed? How much more surprising…if someone did?
Helen Keller wrote:
"Now and then I have tested my seeing friends to discover what they see.Recently I was visited by a very good friend who had just returned from a long walk through the woods. 'What did you see?', I asked her.'Nothing, in particular,' she replied. I might have been incredulous had I not been accustomed to such responses; for long ago I became convinced that the seeing see little."
This Advent may God give us eyes to see; ears to hear; and a heart to understand and turn to Him, Emmanuel, God with us: hidden in a song, a field, a star, a child.
To us, and to this world, a Savior’s born. I wonder: do we have the faith to see?And, if so, the courage to follow where He leads?
Wishing you a blessed Christmas,
A Pastor in the Desert
posted by A Pastor in the Desert | 7:48 PM
