We are living in a world where frenetic activity is displacing calm reflection; where the real world of people and relationships is increasingly drowned by images and sounds that proclaim the latest belief. But belief in what? Ideas concocted by the purveyors of those images whose purposes are to achieve their own will and not that of the Almighty; Ideas that bring to them celebrity status or material gain. Peter warns us against these “false prophets... and false teachers” who “bring the way of truth into disrepute... denying the sovereign Lord who bought them”.
How are we to recognise them and to avoid being exploited by them? Peter says that “no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation”. Peter exhorts us to take time to distance ourselves from the material world and its glitter as to light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in our hearts.
Lord give us time to amend our ways and the grace to listen to you speaking with the “still small voice of calm” so that in this season of Advent we may truly prepare ourselves for your coming.
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