Today’s
#AdventWord is #Sign
The
angel told the shepherds that a Saviour had been born, and that the sign would
be that they would find a child wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a
manger (Luke 2:12). At the other end
of Luke’s Gospel (24:12), Peter finds the linen cloths that had wrapped Jesus
for burial ‘by themselves’—a sign to him of the triumph of the Messiah over
death. A sign points us to something beyond itself. In the case of cloth, to God-with-us
in our struggle for life, from the outset; ultimately defeating the ancient
enemy that held sway over us. As we wrap ourselves in a throw to watch
Christmas movies or put on new brushed-cotton Christmas pyjamas to snuggle into
bed, may we not shut the dark world out but be reminded again of the good news
of great joy.
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