Day 5: We Wait

...continued from yesterday...

In the season of Advent, especially, we are reminded that we are waiting. We are waiting for the day when all that was accomplished in the birth and life and death and resurrection of Jesus will finally be fully realized. We are waiting for the day when our friends won’t get cancer and when people won’t be sold into slavery, for the day when relationships will be healed and the earth will be, too. We wait for the promises of Isaiah—for the time when the wilderness, barren and desolate, will burst into bloom; for the day when the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

We wait and we long. And in the meantime, we live. We live into that future, we live as if it were already here—because we know Christ has already done the work to make that all happen. Because, even though we don’t see it yet, the promises of Isaiah have already been fulfilled in Jesus.

Joy to the world. The Lord has come. Will we receive our King?

tomorrow: an update on the stocking project