11.30.07
On Prepping
ADVENT GREETINGS:
Here at Church, we’re prepping today, by putting up all kinds of greenery and other Christmas garb. That’s a bit of Advent, isn’t it? Prepping? Preparation, strictly for the outer, or is there an inner prepping that I could also be doing?
John Wesley, founder of Methodism, was fond of asking others, How goes it with your soul? In other words, How ya doin’ spiritually? For me to answer, I need to do a spiritual gut check. What’s really going on in my life? Am I closer to God than I was a year ago? Am I open to Christ coming into my life in new and special ways? Would Christ find my heart a good place to hang out? If not, why not?
Advent (a season of preparation) calls us to be open and ready for Christ’s coming. That coming may come in worship, or at a homeless shelter, at Perkins, or over a home cooked meal. But like a prayer that we sometimes use at a meal, I need to verbally pray, Come, Lord Jesus, be my guest. That may take a little discipline and some creativity on my part in order that I can be open and desirous of Christ breaking into my life in new and special ways, even this Advent season. I need to prep so that I can extend to you the greeting, May the Christ in me greet the Christ in thee. Happy Advent, prep with God in mind, that it might go well with your soul!
Stop by. The coffee’s fresh, the light is on. Let me know how you’re prepping.
Your Friend,
Pastor Don
