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Tuesday, the 4th Week of Advent: "On Deadlines and Advent"

It's Tuesday of the fourth week of Advent...And I'm thinking of "Deadlines",

We're all waiting for Christmas in just three days...but before we get there, we face Deadlines...crunch time..."this stuff has to be done before Christmas"...I am there too.

Isn't that what always happens when we get close to some days off?
I thought about that on my walk this morning and it hit me...

Galatians 4:4
4 But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law,

It hit me...God has deadlines too.

Just think about it...the time from Adam to Jesus was several thousand years,

John 1:1-2
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning.

During this time, the nation had the promise of the first Advent...the Messiah was promised and "in time" He would come.

The nation of Israel waited, and waited, and waited to see the Messiah come, and when he did come..they didn't recognize it.

John 1:10-11
10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.

THEN...at the Deadline...God said, "NOW"... The TIME was NOW...and it was in that "fullness of time" that God sent his Son.

The First Advent was a mysterious, but marvelous event...and so will be the Second Advent. Because God has also promised that the Time will come when Jesus will return again - the Second Advent.

So it hit me: If Israel waited and waited, but then didn't recognize his first coming, I had to ask myself if we I was living in such a way today that I could recognize his coming again?

1 Thessalonians 3:12-13
12 ...may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you, 13 so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

Deadlines, we live with them; but we remember that the ultimate Deadline is in God’s hand…it’s up to us to be ready when he is.


That's what hit me on my walk today...

Peace!

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