Wednesday
6th December
Whether it’s extremism and nuclear threats,
global warming, antibiotic resistant diseases, or any number of other risks to
our world, we can be forgiven for sometimes losing hope and wondering if our
human story will end happily. What is God doing in all of this?
At
advent we remember the story of God coming to dwell among his people in a
stable in Bethlehem. But how can this story from the distant past give us hope
for the future? In Revelation we find that this was just the beginning, a
foretaste of the final chapter of the great creation story. When God will come
to make His permanent home among His
people, and make all things new.
Revelation reaches the limits of
language in trying to picture what that might look like. Yet it does give us
buckets of hope when things look darkest. Creation is not to be God’s failed
project; we are fighting in a battle we know is already won. We are here making
ready for the great wedding of heaven and earth, laying the foundations for the
New Jerusalem, and watering the seeds of a new creation.
We can have hope no matter what because
we know how this story ends, and how the next great story begins.
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