12/06/2023
In Sunday’s sermon, I closed by thinking through what a real worst-case scenario might look for us leading up to Christmas. I offered the following:
What would Our Worst Case Scenario be this holiday season
if we had to imagine it?
- That when we could not get to God—God did not come to us.
- That we cannot become anything more than what we already are.
- That despite all the directions we’ve been given, we are destined to remain hopelessly lost.
Our worst case scenario would be waiting for a Savior that never comes, or worse still—to go through the next few weeks without realizing how badly we need the Savior who will come, has come, and who will come again.
Advent is not meant to be a season of parties and songs about reindeer and snowmen. Advent is a sacred pilgrimage back into our desperate need for what only God can provide. It is a remembrance of being lost in the darkness and falling prey to our worst and most self-destructive desires. It is to wait upon the One who has been promised, knowing that God has been and will be faithful to God’s promises. It is know that there is no gift so great as the gift of presence: God’s presence among us, and our presence offered to one another.
May that be the gift you focus on this holiday season.
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