Advent 2019 – Day 2

Last updated on: December 2, 2019 at 3:31 pm by Matt Pearson

Advent 2019 – Day 2 2019-12-02T15:31:19-05:00 Matt Pearson

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From Russ Ramsey’s The Advent of the Lamb of God:

“This, ultimately, is what the story is about. It is a tale filled with people in trouble, all living somewhere between wandering and homecoming, between devastation and restoration, between transgression and grace. Every mortal character in the story needs rescue, but they have all turned aside, and together they have become corrupt. There is no one who does good, not even one.

Itâ€™s a textured story. But after clearing away all the levels of intrigue, conflict, and suspense facing mankind, this story is not ultimately about mortals. It is a story of divine love.

The law of the Lord is a love story.

Itâ€™s the story of the one true God calling a people his beloved, though theyâ€™ve lived in perpetual rebellion against him. They werenâ€™t meant to live this way. Still, they didâ€”forgetful and fickle, stiff-necked and proud.

Nevertheless, though their lives were a ruin of their own making, God swore a covenant oath to redeem them. Everything wrong with the world he would put right. He would remove their hearts of stone and give them hearts of flesh, putting a new spirit within them. And he would never, ever stop loving them. God was pursuing them.

Since the beginning, this story has had an endâ€”a glorious end. Godâ€™s call on the lives of his people, ultimately, is to himselfâ€”though it would come at a greater cost than anyone could have imagined. The story ends with the maker and lover of the souls of men drawing his people to himselfâ€”purchasing their redemption through the lifeblood of his own Son. God did not spare his Son but gave him for us all. And if this is true, how will he not also, through his Son, graciously give us all things?”

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