Introduction
‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.’ This Advent season is all about preparing, but preparing what? How can we keep all the practical preparations in proportion to the preparations of our hearts?
Luke 3:1-6
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness. He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah,
‘The voice of one crying out in the wilderness:
“Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low,
and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways made smooth;
and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.” ’
Questions:
- What does making Christ’s path straight look like in our generation?
- What is our expectation as we prepare for the incarnation?
How do we imagine all flesh shall see the salvation of God?
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