Advent is the season of preparation, but also the season of
waiting. Waiting for God to show his hand, so to speak, by revealing his master
plan for our salvation, a plan devised before the creation of the world and
carried out by a helpless infant born to a virgin in a dirty barn two thousand
years ago.
He showed his hand in Jesus, God made man, fully human,
fully divine, impossible for us to fully understand but possible, through the
Holy Spirit, for us to fully love.
My readings today have reflected the idea of waiting. Psalm
33:22: Let your unfailing love surround us, Lord, for our hope is in you alone.
There is an expectancy there, as well as a quiet waiting. Patient. Trusting
that God will not let us down.
The Lord watches over those who fear him, those who rely on
his unfailing love.
It’s not always easy to rely on his unfailing love.
Sometimes we are caught in the grip of anxiety, of grief, of depression, of
disappointment, of pain, and he seems to tarry. But Isaiah 30:18 also
celebrates the faithfulness of God to deliver: For the Lord is a faithful God.
Blessed are those who wait for his help.
Blessed are those who wait for his help.
It’s not easy to wait. May he strengthen us all to wait for
his help and prevent us from trying to devise our own, woefully inadequate,
solution ourselves.
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