Sermon - Luke 1:26-38

21 min

Religion

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I would like to share with you the words of a new Advent hymn by David Bjorlin, a hymn that so beautifully describes what I am feeling in the deepest part of my being at this present time. These are the verses: Come now, O God, when our love is forsaken. Come, when our bedrock of faith has been shaken. Come, when our deepest of hopes are mistaken. Come, Emmanuel. Come, Emmanuel. Come, when we squander the freedom you gave us. Come, break the systems of sin that enslave us. Come, though we wonder if you can still save us. Come, Emmanuel. Come, Emmanuel. Come, put an end to our self-serving madness. Come, while the world is enshrouded in sadness. Come, turn the tears of our mourning to gladness. Come, Emmanuel. Come, Emmanuel. Advent is a time to acknowledge and be honest about our longing for God to break into what was and what is. It is a time to articulate our longing for God to break into our forsaken love, our shaken faith, our mistaken hopes, the skewed ways we have squandered and abused the freedom we have been given, the systems of sin that enslave us, our self-serving madness, the world’s sadness, and our grieving tears. This longing we express with the words, “Come, though we wonder if you can still save us,” makes clear to me that we, on our own as human beings, are not capable of creating our own salvation. And, quite honestly, we do not even have the capacity to imagine the ways of God. The salvation we so long for is always something that must come from beyond us, beyond our own human understanding. The ways of God need to disrupt our present situation and break into our lives for us to become changed. And, we c

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Sermon - Luke 1:26-38

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