ADVENT....week 2(or 4: ) Candle of Faith/Preparation

Week 2: the Candle of Faith…the Candle of Preparation…the
Bethlehem Candle

….The entire Christmas story is about INTERRUPTIONS. and how people
Responded to these God gifts of interruption.

Are you willing to receive the gift of interruption?
Are you willing ? do you need to receive the gift of obedience?
Obey…
Follow
Go where he sends  you?
Do what he’s asking you to do?

I hate interruptions! Even though my life is full of them.
I used to say that the person who works at a church, especially the admin of a dept or the church itself ….their
first gift should the gift
Of interruption….
Someone always needed something even if it was just “to talk” to someone and usually the people who call or walk in the office don’t have an appointment!

Are we wiling to allow Go d to interrupt our plans, our ways, our hopes
And even our dreams?

Are we willing to be willing?

Are we willing daily to have him interrupt what we had planned?

Mary and Joseph allowed God to interrupt and intercept all they’d hoped
And dreamed about.
Their entire lives were upended by the announcement of the angel that Jesus was on the way.

Zechariah and Elizabeth had their lives interrupted too.
And even with the joy of having a child after so many years of being barren and shamed by the lack of one, they had to be willing to allow
God to tell them how he should be raised. Not  as a good Jewish son at home….but in the wilderness eating bugs and honey.

Willing to leave our comfort zones
Willing to go where sends us
Willing to listen to dreams ….his dreams not just our own.
Willing to change plans in mid course.

I’m so bad at this…I want what I want and I want it now.
I like change on paper, but it is much harder to live out in real life.
To allow God to direct our paths mean we control freaks have to let go
And give control over to the one who can see beyond tomorrow For REAL…

In all thy ways acknowledge him and he will direct your path.

This candle is known as the faith candle but also the candle of preparation…preparing the way of the king….

What do you need to do in your life today, this week to get prepared for king jesus?

What areas of your life are being interrupted in order for you to prepare him room?

In What areas of your life do you need to have faith in order to Believe, to Go to go where he sends you…to go to Bethlehem?

Today I need to repent because I’m so not ready to obey
I’m so bossy
And so unwilling to be interrupted , or to acknowledge that the interruption is from Him.

The beautiful thing about Advent….God has the map
He knows the way to Bethlehem (and even beyond to Egypt!)
He plans ahead and knows the bits that will scare us to death.
He just wants us to be willing to be willing
To have the faith to Go where he sends us
And to see the adventure in the interruptions.

Comments

[Zoran]

Hi there,
Thank you! I would now go on this blog every day!

Thank you
Zoran