Sunday, December 2, 2012

1st Sunday of Advent: Hope



Isaiah 40:1-3 (NIV)
Comfort, comfort my people,
    says your God.
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
    and proclaim to her
that her hard service has been completed,
    that her sin has been paid for,
that she has received from the Lord’s hand
    double for all her sins.
A voice of one calling:
“In the wilderness prepare
    the way for the Lord;
make straight in the desert
    a highway for our God

Devotional:

The first Sunday of advent focuses on hope.  The advent candles are lit one candle for the first week of advent, hope the light of the world is coming.  Matthew 1:23 (NASB):

"Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel," which translated means, "God with us."

What can give us more hope than knowing God is with us?  Immanuel “God with us” is Christ who is born into this world and lived a sinless life.  God loves us so much He became human, a simple man.  He lived, suffered, and died.  He did this so that we might live with Him for eternity in heaven.  Immanuel “God with us.”  The hope of the world…

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