ADVENT WEEK THREE
December 17, 2020
Faithful to all Generations
Psalm 89:1-4
I will sing of your steadfast love, Lord, forever; with my mouth I will proclaim your faithfulness to all generations. Psalm 89:1
Few things have stretched my understanding of God’s faithfulness to all generations than the past year. A wonderful Advent celebration followed by a Lenten season that found us wondering if the world would ever be the same again. Our solemn gatherings grew silent as we gathered online and, for the first time in my life, Easter was celebrated without every seat in the sanctuary filled and “Christ The Lord Is Risen Today” being sung as loud as my small congregation could manage. We had entered a new day.
We find ourselves in the middle of Advent again and a new normal has taken hold. We have had to adapt to a new way of living together and protecting one another, a new awareness of how to share our love, and in the midst of this beginning to the Christian year we are once again reminded that God’s faithfulness is to all generations.
Even in the darkest hours light shines through and God is faithful to us as we gather and as we worship and we hope and find Joy in new beginnings, in the God made flesh, in the Christ Child. As our time of Advent begins to draw to an end and Christmas is upon us, as the miracle of birth brings Joy and wonder to us all, let us remember that even the darkness of the past year will not overcome the light that has been brought into the world and that we can proclaim God’s faithfulness to all generations.
Rev. Jeremy Skaggs
Alumni Board Member (2002) and
Senior Minister, The Welcome Table Christian Church, Arlington, Texas
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