Heard this on the radio the other day. I have trouble waiting. I want to see things move. Lines move too slow, people move too slow, traffic moves too slow, time moves too slow... Imagine having 400 years of silence... The word advent means “expectation.” What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope. That’s why the subtitle of the book is “An Advent Journey of Hope.” All of us are stuck somewhere between the pain of this world and the promise of God. There’s something that’s not right or not perfect or not the way we had hoped or dreamed that it was going to be. But God promises that He will use everything and every moment to ultimately take us to a new Heaven and a new Earth. For now, we’re stuck in the middle. Advent is the season that can remind us God is working while we’re waiting and we’re really waiting with God. If you’re waiting with God, waiting is okay. If you’re always waiting on God, you’ll be frustrated. God never seems to work at the speed that we want Him to. Advent allows us to recover during this four-week journey. It begins four Sundays before Christmas all the way up to Christmas. It lets us breath in those moments of faithfulness and helps us recognize that God is working. Even if we don’t see it, God is always working underneath the surface, behind the scenes and orchestrating His plans and purposes. We go from Malachi to Matthew in one page of our scriptures, but that one piece of paper that separates the Old Testament from the New Testament represents 400 years of history—400 years where there wasn’t a prophet, 400 years where God’s voice wasn’t heard. And that silence was broken with the cry of a baby on Christmas night. There are people who are waiting right now. They’re waiting on a marriage. They’re waiting on a baby to come. They’re waiting on a job or a breakthrough or a promise that God has given them. All these readings in the book are meant to point us to Christmas night and remind us that God is faithful. God is faithful. God is faithful. 400 years might go by, but never count God out. Q&A with Louie Giglio about his new book. Read more: beliefnet/columnists/wholenotes/2014/11/a-conversation-with-pastor-author-and-songwriter-louie-giglio.html#ixzz3LB7C462d Read more at beliefnet/columnists/wholenotes/2014/11/a-conversation-with-pastor-author-and-songwriter-louie-giglio.html#L5wc0BHledmRhfXu.99
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