Prayer: This
day O LORD, You bring us comfort in our
waiting and in our listening to Your voice.
Come Lord Jesus, return to us and
deliver our souls for the sake of Your love.
Come Lord Jesus, help make us
ready to serve You all the days of our life.
Amen.
Read Malachi 2: 17 - 4: 6
Malachi (pronounced Mal ah ki) gets in the last
word. Malachi the prophet is the last
Book in the Old Testament and the last
of the twelve Minor Prophets. In this
small book, Malachi is a prophet who
wakes up the people from their complacency.
The people are slowly sliding away from God and Malachi says, “But
listen! Listen to God! Get ready for God! “ Malachi tells God’s chosen people to remember
the great Prophets of Moses and Elijah.
Moses keeps us rooted in what God has done in the past. Elijah keeps us ready for what God will be
doing in the future.
For us today,
Malachi is still relevant.
Christmas is coming. We rush
around getting the baking done, the
cards written and mailed, the gifts
bought, the batteries for all the toys
stored in a safe place. But the first
Christmas was not a time of business.
The first Christmas was a transforming event. As we
live through this Advent season, what
will be our means of getting ready for a new way of looking at life -- a
new way of living?
During Advent, how do you get ready for God? What
has God done for you in the past? How will you keep ready for what God will be
doing with you in the future?
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