We’ve been in the season of Advent - the four weeks leading up to Christmas morning. And during this season, the primary theme has been waiting and expectation. Just as a child eagerly awaits the arrival of Christmas day, the day that involves opening all those gifts piled under the tree, Advent is about a waiting. It’s about an expectation. It’s about eagerness. But what we’re eager for is more than packages and objects and things that will one day break and be disposed of. We’re eagerly waiting for the celebration of Jesus. And we’re eagerly waiting for the arrival of Jesus once again. For 400 years, since the time of the prophets who had come to tell Israel about a coming Messiah, God’s people had been waiting for that arrival. Isaiah announced that a child would be born and a son given. He declared that the government would be upon his shoulders and that his name would be called “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” This was a promise ma...
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