Monday, December 12, 2011

A Journey Completed

Psalm 122
One of the two psalms for this morning tells us of a journey completed. “I was glad when they said to me, ‘Let us go to the house of the Lord!’ Our feet are standing within your gates, O Jerusalem (Psalm 122:1-2). “I was delighted when we began our trip to Jerusalem,” the psalmist is saying. “Now here we are, safely inside its walls.” A trek which began in gladness has come to a joy-filled conclusion.

The Christian faith is also a journey that, like all significant undertakings, has a purpose, a goal, a destination. We believe that someday we also will stand within the holy city under the fulfilled reign of God. Advent celebrates this expectation, it encourages us to plan and to prepare and to await that which we know to be coming, that which God will reveal to us in God’s time. Meanwhile we walk on together, a band of travelers, disciples led by a risen Savior, and as we journey we are filled with gladness for we know where we are headed and that someday we will arrive at the new Jerusalem and be filled with joy.

Prayer: Lord, you have invited us to walk with you. Guide our steps that by grace we may finish the journey and arrive at the destination you have prepared for us. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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