Nothing Stops God from Acting like God.
Let’s see what we learned this year about God and the Advent Season.
Evil and sin brought Jesus to the cross, but the power of goodness and the faithfulness of God brought Jesus to life at the resurrection. Sin can never destroy the relationship of humanity with God, nor God can never be deceased.
A person of faith can never fear the wrath of God. Why? Faithfulness is what God cherishes the most in his followers. People can always bath in the rainwaters of the Holy Spirit and be reconciled with God once again. The recent season of Advent is yet another view of a loving God who means what he says.
God loves us and sees within each of his children what is possible when at times we only see what we cannot do. Let God help because God knows you better than you know yourself. While we only see roadblocks in front of us, God sees another way that will get us moving.
God is a savior and wants to save us. This past Advent season, like all advent seasons, allowed God the chance to try again to win our hearts. Simply because God knows another avenue, lane, or path, that we can’t see, but God wants us to try these. It is called Godly trust.
It may be the road less traveled, but that won’t stop God from trying because it just might be the road God wishes us to engage to make a point. Even Christmas, with all of its color, songs, and stories is surely here to make us feel good, but also to show us what it’s like to be the Word made flesh. It is to show us what a Christ-like life means.
Advent talks of the light Christ brings. Advent speaks of our darkness and blindness, but Christ introduces the true light that never goes out. We need now look to see Jesus’ birth as the new light of the world and follow it. Every Advent season re-introduces our yearning for our savior, the light of world. We call this hope. It is born of sacred love and we Christians believe that we live always in this love.
Christianity is not a religion that believes in an abstract, distant, disconnected God. No! Our God came to meet us in a real, historical, and material fact.
Even today our God waits to meet us in a specific time and place: in our hearts, our homes, and our souls.
As Advent fades for another year, we return to our daily lives trying to love one another as deeply as Jesus loves us.
Icon: “Life in Nazareth” by Kateryna Shadrina
