NOVEMBER 30 - DAY 21 Peter 1:4
Dean Borgman
Jesus our Lord...has given us...very great promises!
We tend to live out our faith in our own little circles. I find it’s so much about me, then my family, mycircle of friends and church, and the Seminary. It is important that our Advent Preparation take place in such little circles and that we individually, with blessed Mary, prepare a place for the Christ Child within us.
But God promises and Advent are about much more. It’s about all things being set right, about the coming of the Kingdom. Our companions in our Advent journey, Mary and Elizabeth, certainly discussed pregnancy within their families and culture. But their humility and mutual love came from being chosen to participate in the coming of something awesome, the long anticipated promise to Abraham, David and all peoples. Mary’s Magnificat moved from “the lowliness” of her station to the magnificence of the Kingdom. Such was Elizabeth’s anticipation, and Zechariah’s, Anna’s and Simeon’s—and of course the whole point of John the Baptist’s ministry. “Something greater than we are, or could hope to be, is coming!”
On this second day of Advent, we pause…. In quiet stillness we wait with saints of old. We wait in the words of the Psalmist: “Be still before the Lord, and wait patiently for Him.” Ps.37:7. We pause with our companions in the Gospels. We wait for the brightness and justice of the Kingdom to break out within us, around us, and to the darkest corners of the earth. And we await “entry into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” (1 Peter 1:11).
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