Scripture: Luke 10:8-9
Whenever you enter a town and its people welcome you, eat what is set before you; cure the sick who are there, and say to them, “The kingdom of God has come near to you.”
Thought for the Day: Just how close is ‘come near’? Are we talking on a cosmic level? If that’s the case, a few hundred light years away is pretty close. Are we talking about the close proximity of a friend? If that’s the case, then we could be talking about how the friend is sitting right across the table from us. I don’t know the specific distance to which Jesus was referring, but I think it is close enough for us to know of its presence and for our lives to be radically changed. Like a magnet’s ability to reorient the needle on a compass, so too does the Kingdom of God’s proximity have the ability to reorient our lives.
Prayer: Your kingdom is at hand, O God, and I feel its draw upon my life. May all of who I am be reoriented by the coming of a child savior. Amen
FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT
This Sunday–December 2
Worship at 8:15am, 9:30am & 11:00am
