Advent is our call as Christians to reorient our lives and look and pray with longing for the coming of the kingdom of God. We look for Jesus to return in glory to judge the quick (living) and the dead and Advent is our time to sing and pray, O Come, O Come Emmanuel. Are we dissatisfied enough with this world to desire the coming of God's kingdom? Today we are caught in a world of the fears of dystopian visionaries, George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. We are fed disinformation all day on both sides of every issue and so many are chemically numbed by psychotropic drugs or self medication which makes us docile inhabitants of the kingdoms of man. We are lost and confused and in need of a true savior, Jesus. Let this be our time to come to truth, God's word, and hope, God's promise but we have to leave all the other stuff behind in order to do so.
