“See the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them and they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them”Advent is the time we reflect on Jesus, Emmanuel, “God with Us.” We wait for the coming of Jesus Emmanuel realizing that at the moment of his birth on earth, all creation was transformed forever. God came and dwelt on the earth in the midst of creation.
(Revelation 21:3).
This year at Third Church our focus for Advent is hospitality. The Bibles says that God’s home is among his peoples. God is not off in some remote part of the universe, but dwells among us. The realization of God’s love and presence among us inspires us to reach out to share the power of this love with others.
Advent can help us understand that God’s love reaches far beyond our human institutions, such as the church. It is not restrained by any human limits. It embraces people from long ago and far away. Our hospitality should extend to all, just as God’s dwells with all his “peoples.”
Loving God, helps us to reach out in love to all just as you reached out to us by dwelling with us in the person of Jesus “Emmanuel”. Amen.
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