What do you do when God feels gone?
Advent is about those times when we long for God’s presence, but feel like we don’t have it. In those moments, or long seasons, when God feels gone we have a decision to make. Whether we realize it or not, we emotionally decide whether God is absent or hidden. Absent as in God is gone or does not exist and we are alone, or hidden in that for our good and his purposes he has hidden himself for a short time. When God feels gone do we think he is absent or hidden?
This Sunday we will listen to the whispers of the incarnation in Matthew 13:53–58. Read, meditate on, and pray through this passage. Imagine Jesus’ actual neighbors, those he grew up with. Do you think they ever felt like God was gone? Yet there he was; Jesus in our human experience.
Pastor David
