At Home In Advent

The following words for reflection are taken and adapted from “At Home In Advent - A domestic journey from Advent to Epiphany” from Gordon Giles (BRF - Bible Reading Fellowship). The entire book is available from Eden.co.uk and would be recommended to get a fuller experience of this time of devotion and meditation.

The purpose of these devotional is to give you something of an everyday object or motion which can focus our thinking through Advent. There are 3 sections:

Travelling in Advent
At Home in Advent
The run up to Christmas

We have travelled home, we have made some preparations, and now we settle in for the last run up to Christmas.

Christmas Adverts: Making Christmas

Read: 2 Timothy 4:1 - 5

For some reason one of the highlights of many peoples Christmas TV are the latest adverts shown (for those who still watch them that is) Do you remember the trampolining foxes, or the little dragon setting everything alight, or my own personal nostalgia… “Primark, got a whole lot of things for Christmas…”. If you can finish that jingle off you know what I mean!

Yet, and crudely put, these are all there to make us spend more money! However, this year I spied a new one from Supervalu in Ireland that is Covid relevant. A child is preparing with the parents, tree, lights presents etc and keeps asking “Is HE coming this year? Are you sure? The parents respond, “Of course he is” This builds until…Granda walks in on Christmas Day “See told you he’d make it”

We cannot be sure that Jesus will be coming this year, but we are assured that He will be coming some time. As the children prepare in this advert are we preparing for the coming King? Paul encourages Timothy to be ready - whether he feels like it or not - to work for the coming King in the expansion of the Kingdom. So this is also a time for us to be ready in season and out of season.

What ads live with you for a long time?

Is there someone you know who needs to hear of the coming Kingdom?

Pray for home mission workers as they bring the Kingdom near.