After the Advent

The young maiden moves on to mundane activities of motherhood. The angelic visits are over, the wise men have gone back home, the young couple has settled in Egyptian exile. It’s easy to get away from the realities when lulled to sleep with similarities. It’s routine, predictable procedure; it’s life...

Was He still the Son of God? Yes. Was He still destined to be King of Israel? Yes. Was He still “God with man?” Yes. Was His life still one of purpose? Yes.

But it is the ordinary, the everyday, the customary, that makes you begin to think there is nothing special to all we have seen, and heard, and experienced. It’s the week after the big events. It’s the days after the revival. It’s the year after the greatest miracle of your life.

It’s then it’s so easy to forget the things you should always remember.

What He said is always true. What He did, He will do again. What He is planning has not been scrapped. Whatever He started, He will finish! “Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ” (Philippians 1:6). You see, He is not just the author; He is the finisher!

Thirty years is a long time ... for man. For God it is just ticks on His eternal timepiece. For the mother of Jesus, it was faint hopes and distant memories. Will He ever become anything but a carpenter?

It was a long stretch of faith between the annunciation at conception, the visitations at birth, and the incident in the Jerusalem temple at age twelve, and then until the wedding in Cana of Galilee. But she must have known there was purpose in the waiting.

Destiny dogged His days. Thirty years of preparation, and a little more than three years of ministry. God’s purpose is always on time and it doesn’t take long to fulfill. After the advent there was still the divine purpose and plan.

Regardless of what you have experienced and enjoyed in the past, be assured that God’s plan now is just what it was then. Keep believing and lock the truth in your heart and His touch in your spirit. What He spoke to you in the hours of hope, He remembers even now. He has not changed!

Keep the dream alive. We have cause to believe after the advent!