Episode 39
Advent means "The Coming." It is typically celebrated 4 Sunday's before Christmas - my favorite holiday of the year!!
“Celebrating Advent means learning how to wait. Waiting is an art which our impatient age has forgotten. We want to pluck the fruit before it has had time to ripen. Greedy eyes are soon disappointed when what they saw as luscious fruit is sour to the taste. In disappointment and disgust they throw it away. The fruit, full of promise rots on the ground. It is rejected without thanks by disappointed hands....The greatest, the deepest, the most tender experiences in all the world demand patient waiting.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Luke 2:25-32
25 At that time there was a man named Simeon living in Jerusalem. He was a good, God-fearing man and was waiting for Israel to be saved. The Holy Spirit was with him 26 and had assured him that he would not die before he had seen the Lord's promised Messiah. 27 Led by the Spirit, Simeon went into the Temple. When the parents brought the child Jesus into the Temple to do for him what the Law required, 28 Simeon took the child in his arms and gave thanks to God:
29 “Now, Lord, you have kept your promise,
and you may let your servant go in peace.
30 With my own eyes I have seen your salvation,
31 which you have prepared in the presence of all peoples:
32 A light to reveal your will to the Gentiles
and bring glory to your people Israel.” (GNT)
This Christmas be reminded to wait patiently on God's plan, purpose, and his timing!
Patience leads to abundant understanding,
but impatience leads to stupid mistakes. (prov 14:29 – CEB)
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