Advent means the arrival of Christ. As most of us know, the Advent Calendar opens each day to help us prepare for the celebration of Christ’s first arrival. For the next four weeks, I’ll offer you scripture to read. Cut it out of the newspaper and tape it to the refrigerator.
This first week of Advent, we will be looking at Hope. There were 400 years of silence between the Old and New Testaments, but that didn’t mean God wasn’t working. Alexander the Great had conquered the world, there was a new way of learning, which encouraged people to ask questions, the Old Testament was now also in Greek, and the Jewish people had moved all over the world. The time was right—God sent his son.
Are you waiting and praying for God to answer your prayers? Have Hope!
December 4----Romans 15:13: “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.”
December 5----Isaiah 40:31: “But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”
December 6----Colossians 1:27 “To them, God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
December 7----Psalm 42:11: “Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Saviour and my God”.
December 8----Romans 12:12: “Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.”
December 9----Proverbs 24:14: “Know also that wisdom is like honey for you: If you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.”
December 10----Psalm 62:5-6 “For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my Hope is from him. He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken.”
