Advent Week 1:
How do we prepare for God's Coming?
How do we prepare for God's Coming?
November 28 - December 4
We’re well into Advent now, the season that includes the four Sundays prior to Christmas Day. These weeks serve as a reminder of Israel’s wait for the Messiah prior to Jesus’ appearance on earth as well as a reminder that we wait again today for Christ’s second coming. Christ has come...Christ is coming again!
Our main passage this week is Isaiah 40:1-11. This passage is well-known in great part to its inclusion in Handel’s Messiah, a popular oratorio which is played throughout the world during the Advent & Christmas seasons.
But it’s also the passage that begins the Gospel of Mark (Thursday’s reading). We don’t know God’s timing. But we are called to always be prepared and preparing for his coming in and through our lives each and every day. God’s coming isn’t simply the first Advent (Jesus’ coming at Christmas) or when Jesus will come again (the “second coming”), but rather, we understand that the world is bursting forth each day for and with the presence of God. So in a way, God “comes” to and through us all the time.
Our hope and our call is to be ready for this. So how do we prepare for God’s coming? What does it “take”? Can we do anything about it? For it? As you pray and read this week, consider what it means to “prepare the way of the Lord.” What does it mean for you as an individual? For your family? For our church?
May the Lord bless you as you seek his Word this week!
Monday, November 28 - Isaiah 40:1-11
Tuesday, November 29 - Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13
Wednesday, November 30 - Luke 1:26-38
Thursday, December 1 - Mark 1:1-8
Friday, December 2 - Matthew 28:16-20
Saturday, December 3 - 2 Peter 3:8-15a
Sunday, December 4 - Come to worship with your church family!
