Living in the midst of a pandemic for the last two years has narrowed our lives. We plan in pencil, hold expectations loosely, and maybe for the first time have wrestled and rested in the reality that, ‘The heart of man plans his ways, but the LORD establishes his steps (Proverbs 16:9).’
Advent reminds us that we live inside a larger story. A story that cannot be thwarted by a pandemic. A story of redemption set in motion before the breath of God awakened the dust-made man, and a story that will continue long after our bodies return to dust.
If the last two years have left you in a fog of darkness, I hope the images of Light in this devotional will illumine Hope as you prepare your heart for the Advent of Christ.
‘…even the darkness is not dark to You; the night is bright as the dark. For darkness is as light with You.’ Psalm 139:12