31 Dec 2009
Advent Devotional
Revelation 21: 1 – 6a
Advent has been a time of waiting, waiting for Christmas and waiting for the time when Christ will come again. This passage in Revelation speaks about something else that Christians are waiting for – the coming of the “New Heaven and New Earth.” God will dwell with God’s people in a New Jerusalem. Does this sound familiar? Jesus was also Emanuel, God is with us. When God dwells with God’s people in the holy city, there will be no mourning, crying or pain. This is what Jesus said he came for too.
As you think about the New Year, what is God making new in you? Share your ideas around the table or with a friend of ways that you can help to bring in a world where there is no more mourning, crying or pain.
God is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, and everything in between.
PRAYER: Dear God, the Alpha and Omega, As we/I think about ways to share your love and healing in our world, write them on my heart, and make them trustworthy and true. Amen.
Virginia Pribbenow