Someone Is Coming
O my Lord, please let the man of God whom You sent come to us again and teach us what we shall do for the child who will be born. (Judges 13:8)
The meaning of Advent from the very beginning of Christianity is that Someone is coming. Someone is coming, a Savior. More than this, the Savior is right in front of our door, He is knocking at our door, and He is waiting to enter in our life. The faithful Christian expectation is that Someone is coming.
Against this, the general feeling of our age is that something is coming. Something unknown is coming and we are living in this fear. It is a very big difference to say, Someone is coming and He knows us and we know Him because He revealed Himself in the scriptures to us; and to say, something is coming, the unknown, the faceless, and this something will overcome us. Someone is coming is the way of hope, the life of hope. Something is coming would force us to explain, what is this, what could this something be?
For instance, it is very tempting in our family life to say, something is coming in the life of my teenager, something unknown to me and I'm not prepared to receive this. But it is better for us as Christians to say that in the life of my child, is coming Jesus. He is coming in all that happens in our lives. The Holy Spirit always translates our requests to the Father and if we remain in this unfaithful expectation, that something is coming, we will live only with our explanations instead of living in prayer. If we would say that Someone is coming in the life of my family, we are ready to accept Him in prayer. If we would say that Someone is coming in the life of my family, in the life of my congregation, this will always lead us to pray. To pray to live always in this very holy expectation.
Because the Savior is coming and He knows very well my struggles, He knows very well my doubts, He knows very well my debates; and it is very good to accept freely His coming with my doubts, with my debates, with my struggles. Because in this case I will pray for my child and for my congregation, and I will pray with my child and with my congregation. Someone is coming - it is the possibility for us to be together in this expectation.
[AV, (c)1998]
The meaning of Advent from the very beginning of Christianity is that Someone is coming. Someone is coming, a Savior. More than this, the Savior is right in front of our door, He is knocking at our door, and He is waiting to enter in our life. The faithful Christian expectation is that Someone is coming.
Against this, the general feeling of our age is that something is coming. Something unknown is coming and we are living in this fear. It is a very big difference to say, Someone is coming and He knows us and we know Him because He revealed Himself in the scriptures to us; and to say, something is coming, the unknown, the faceless, and this something will overcome us. Someone is coming is the way of hope, the life of hope. Something is coming would force us to explain, what is this, what could this something be?
For instance, it is very tempting in our family life to say, something is coming in the life of my teenager, something unknown to me and I'm not prepared to receive this. But it is better for us as Christians to say that in the life of my child, is coming Jesus. He is coming in all that happens in our lives. The Holy Spirit always translates our requests to the Father and if we remain in this unfaithful expectation, that something is coming, we will live only with our explanations instead of living in prayer. If we would say that Someone is coming in the life of my family, we are ready to accept Him in prayer. If we would say that Someone is coming in the life of my family, in the life of my congregation, this will always lead us to pray. To pray to live always in this very holy expectation.
Because the Savior is coming and He knows very well my struggles, He knows very well my doubts, He knows very well my debates; and it is very good to accept freely His coming with my doubts, with my debates, with my struggles. Because in this case I will pray for my child and for my congregation, and I will pray with my child and with my congregation. Someone is coming - it is the possibility for us to be together in this expectation.
[AV, (c)1998]
posted by CS at 7:15 PM
2 Comments:
I realise reading this that I don't really, deep down, believe that Someone is coming. I don't have this "holy expectation." But I would like to. I would like to have this expectation and for that Someone to come. I like this idea that we wait not alone, but together.
Again, AV reduces me to being able to saying nothing intelligent at all.
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