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Advent Devotional for Tuesday, December 7
God is in the loud, in the thunderbolt and in consuming lava.
God is in the soft, in the flapping of monarch’s wings as they fly from Texas to Ontario.
God is in the hot, in the still damp of summer in Louisiana and in the Santa Ana wind.
God is in the cold, in the first snow that delights our children and in Antarctica’s ice.
For God is not trapped in the small spaces of our ideas, nor waiting for our votes to let God be.
“My murmurings surround you like shadowy wings,” the poet Rilke heard God say. “Can’t you see me standing before you cloaked in stillness?” Sometimes we see. The glory of the spider’s web is God’s glory. The dancing of the stars that the Hubble telescope shows us is also God’s creative dance. Do not our hearts ache at the beauty of it all? For God creates the vastations of heaven and comes to us before our feeble tongues can speak.
And if this were not enough, God comes to our Decembers and cries like a baby. O come, let us adore him.
O God, because of you the sun shines and our hearts beat. Everything that is raises its hands in prayer to you, for you love what you have made. Come to us again and accept our praise, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Timothy Lincoln
Associate Dean for Seminary Effectiveness and Director of the Stitt Library
For the glory of God and to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary is a seminary in the Presbyterian-Reformed tradition whose mission is to educate and equip individuals for the ordained Christian ministry and other forms of Christian service and leadership; to employ its resources in the service of the church; to promote and engage in critical theological thought and research; and to be a winsome and exemplary community of God's people.
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