The Season of Advent bids us prepare the way of the Lord. The Scriptures this past Sunday speak of leveling mountains and filling valleys, so that the path is straight. Maybe not so much for God to be able to come to us, after all God is God – and can come – powerfully.
Yet maybe all this leveling of roads - for that is what is involved in making the path straight - all this leveling of roads is for us to be able to access GOD. The timing of Isaiah’s prophecy is during the exile in Babylon: so the highway he’s talking about was to lead the chosen people - the people of Israel - back to promised land - back to their inheritance. John the Baptist invites us to repentance, since it is sin that can block our access to God. Reconciliation – Like that offered a week next Tuesday (December 13 at 7 pm) allows God to make straight the path in us once again, and hastens the coming of the kingdom.
When we forgive and when we are forgiven - when that is a genuine experience of Reconciliation, it is as if there is a "spark" of the Kingdom. A little "in-breaking" of the reign of God. And we can bask in the glow of that spark, the glow of God’s grace.
God comes to us so that we might approach God - not in fear and trembling – but in wonder and Awe.
Peace
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