Our Father

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. 

                                                                            (Gal 4:3-7 KJV)

As the preacher reminds us in Ecclesiastes there is a time and a season for every purpose. (Eccl 3:1)  When the fulness of time came, God sent his only begotten Son so that through Jesus we too might become his beloved children. 

God chooses his time. He chooses his children. He chooses to care for us. He chooses to love us. He chose to save us by sacrificing His Son for us.  This is not a work of humankind. Our relationship with God is a direct consequence of His love for us and as His children He has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts that we might love him and one another as Jesus does. Without the abiding presence of the Spirit of Christ we cannot ever love as he loves us.

God bless you on this Sunday in Advent and everyday with the abiding presence of the one who died that you might live life in him.

God's Peace - Pr. J.