Week One - Hope
I WAIT FOR THE LORD, MY SOUL WAITS;
AND IN HIS WORD I PUT MY HOPE.
PSALM 130:5
The season of Advent is a time of waiting with expectation.
This is the essence of hope - living in anticipation of what we know is coming.
Psalm 130 begins by describing the dark reality of someone caught in a pit of their own making. They cry out to God from the depths, wondering if He will hear them. But then something in them remembers that God has promised to forgive, and they cling to this ray of hope. They begin to wait and watch with anticipation.
God has not rescued them yet, but they know He will. The psalm ends with confidence that God will rescue His people from the things they’ve done wrong.
Advent is the season of waiting with hope. At His birth, Jesus entered a world trapped in a darkness of its own making. His death broke the power of darkness, and at His resurrection the light of His life began to shine. His light continues to spread through the life of the church, and we wait in anticipation of His return.
Our hope is that He is coming soon to make all things new, and together with the church through the ages we say,