Advent: Life Inside the Clock

Advent is a season of waiting, patience, and anticipation. It reminds us that, while God lives outside of the clock, we live very much inside it. The psalmist says that a thousand years in God’s sight is equal to only a short watch of the night. But you have to walk through the years at the going rate for humans, living in the present and waiting to see tomorrow when it finally shows up as today. Our temptation is to think of waiting as dead space and this is just how the man who lives by sight thinks of it. He waits to see and until He sees, He is dead, lazy, unproductive today in his feigned ambition for tomorrow.

But the life you now live, you live by faith, not by sight, just like our fathers who came before us. Many prophets longed to see the coming of our Lord and saw it not. But they lived, manning their stations by faith, levelling kingdoms and stopping the mouths of lions. All while they waited.

So it is now. Given the advent of our Lord, His reign is in our midst. And His earthly reign will extend far beyond our present lives. You have something in common with those prophets of old. There are many triumphs of Christ to come in this world that you will never see with the eyes in your head and in which you will not participate, at least in this body. Your children will see them and participate in them. Your grandchildren will play their part in their day.

But you are prohibited from taking up those conquests of our King in your arms like Simeon took Jesus up in his. But you are not at all prohibited from taking up the present conquests of our King. Those are within reach.

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