People
of God: prepare!
God,
above all, maker of all,
is
one with us in Christ.
Maranatha!
Come,
Lord Jesus!
God,
the mighty God,
bends
down in love to earth.
Maranatha!
Come,
Lord Jesus!
God
with us, God beside us,
comes
soon to the world he has made.
Maranatha!
Come,
Lord Jesus!
We
are God’s children,
we
seek the coming Christ.
Maranatha!
Come,
Lord Jesus!
…we
seek the coming Christ.
I
wonder what it is that you hope for this Christmas? Perhaps you have had to
revise your plans—and your expectations in line with them, refashioning them
into something smaller in the hope of not being disappointed. Perhaps you hope
for moments of joy, or peace, in the bitter-sweet bustle or boredom.
The
Christ is a person, of course, but his coming is an event, and perhaps,
even if you won’t be opening your door to far-flung relatives this year you
might hope to welcome him. But our prayer goes beyond hoping, to an
active searching-out: we seek the coming Christ. And if we might
recognise him at some future arrival, we might do well to rehearse our part in
his many unheralded arrivals, in rooms behind closed doors. How might you seek
the coming Christ, hidden in plain sight, this Christmas? In whose eyes, or
voice, might he be found?
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