Advent is a season of waiting.  But what are we waiting for?

Are we waiting for…Christmas?…presents?…a baby in a manger?  God?

The monks of the Weston Priory wrote:

         We go on waiting, knowing you have come, yet we are not ready to be transformed.  Give us your Spirit and we’ll carry on, the day is long ahead of us, and we’ll carry on.

What Are We Waiting For?

So why are we waiting or what are we waiting for?  We know God has come—yet we are not ready to be transformed…ahh that is what we are waiting for!  We are waiting for ourselves!

We are the ones Jesus spoke of when he prayed: “As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us…so that they may be one, as we are one.  I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one…”

We are the ones of whom John wrote: But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.

So we have the power to become children of God.  Maybe we are waiting to access that power.  Why are we waiting? What are the barriers?  Do we lack the faith in God’s promise? Do we see ourselves as too evil, too materialistic, too ordinary?

All of those things do not matter.  They are irrelevant because it is not about us—it is about God.  How does God see us?

God sees us as we were created—eons ago before the beginning of time—in God’s image: perfect pure and beautiful, one in Him as He and Jesus are one.

Advent Is The Time

So perhaps Advent is the time to let God’s Spirit transform us into what we are meant to be—the face, the hands, the flesh of God here in this world.  The ones who see God in all other human beings.  The ones who soak up the world’s hatred, anger, bitterness and violence and transform it in our being by bathing it in the endless Love within us.

Peace,

Pastor Hoyt