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Advent Devotional for Monday, December 1
Revelation 15:1-8
The National Multicultural Conference of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) was held this past summer in Fort Worth, Texas. People representing various cultures, languages, traditions, and nations came together to celebrate the diversity with which the church is blessed. During our mutual sharing and learning from one another, we were gathered in unity around the Word and Sacrament as members of the one body of Christ, “one Lord, one faith, one baptism.” (Eph. 4:5). The worship experience at the conference felt as a foreshadowing of the fulfillment of the times when all nations will come together as one people to praise and glorify the Lord of lords as mentioned in the book of Revelation.
The hymn of the Lamb in today’s reading echoes the praise and adoration to the Creator and Savior found throughout the book of Revelation. Heaven and earth are full of God’s glory and the entire creation awaits the coming of the Lord, the “King of the nations.”
In the midst of life’s seasons of tribulation, warfare, famine, and disease, God’s people are assured that the day is coming when all the nations will come and worship before the “Lord God the Almighty.” It is a day when all things will be made new.
As we journey through the Advent season and may face sorrow and suffering, we would do well to continue placing our trust in God, “who lives for ever and ever.” Let us join in worship with the whole church in heaven and on earth praising and glorifying God in anticipation of the day when death, mourning, crying, and pain will be no more.
Today we lift our hearts and voices in joyful worship to you our Lord, for you alone are worthy of all glory and honor. We worship you in the company of all God’s faithful people from every nation and every time and every place who forever sing to the glory of your name. We pray together with them: “Come, Lord Jesus!”
Lemuel García-Arroyo
Director of Alumni and Church Relations
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