Advent = One Arrival That We Can’t Schedule

This season of Advent is a time of beginnings, comings, and arrival.

Traditionally, that “arrival” emphasis has been a time to anticipate and prepare for the triumphant return of Christ.

Currently, some people in various parts of the Church are busy connecting dots among current global events and announcing His return as imminent.

By contrast, it has been said that “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. ”    

Christ Jesus himself said that in Matthew 24:36.  I used the New International Version here, but all translations of that verse are amazingly similar.

How to best connect that verse with our daily lives this Advent Season?  Tomorrow we’ll let John Wesley help us with that.

For today, I’m letting the words of St. Augustine rattle around inside of me: “Let God be God.”

As a friend likes to add, “Let God be God; it sure makes being you and me a lot easier.”

Join me.