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Waiting for Godot
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Second Sunday of Advent
2 Peter 3:13
According to his promise we await new heavens and a new earth.
What are you waiting for? Jump!
Some of us jump too quick (me), and some of us jump too slow (Margaret). Our waiting balances out most of the time. Slowly, we begin to understand what we wait for.
And it’s not God.
In his existential play Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett makes sly fun of those of us who spend our lives waiting for … God. But we do wait, don’t we? It is God’s future in which we have our hope, isn’t it?
In yesterday’s devotion, Oswald Chambers wrote, “The blessings of God are finished and complete.” So what am I waiting for? Perhaps “I wait for Him to do something in me that I may trust in that.”
But that’s not how God works. “Man has to go out of himself in his covenant with God as God goes out of Himself in His covenant with man.” Otherwise, “we have faith only in our feelings.” And of course, that’s a faith founded on straw and wind, not on rock.
There is a great truth here. Chambers concludes, “When I have really transacted business with God on His covenant and have let go entirely, there is no sense of merit, no human ingredient in it at all, but a complete overwhelming sense of being brought into union with God, and the whole thing is transfigured with peace and joy.”
Lord, it is in you that kindness and truth meet, and in you where justice and peace kiss. Your truth springs from the earth, and justice looks down from heaven. Let us see your kindness, Lord, and grant us your salvation.
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P.S. This is a great day to listen to or read each of the daily readings. The passage from Isaiah 40 is amazing. The audio option is available at the link at the top of the devotion.
