2nd Sunday in Advent

Matthew 3:1-12

Prepared to meet your Maker?



We do not like change. We confess that we are ‘sinful and unclean’ and

therefore not ‘holy’ as ‘God is holy.’ But that doesn’t mean we want to

be changed. We’ve learned to adapt to our environment and survive in

sub-standard world. So, when we hear that our maker is coming into this

world to change us and change this world, we wonder, ‘where’s the hope

in that?’ We think it would be a whole lot better and a whole lot easier if

the Lord would change and lower His expectations and accept reality.

The God of unchangeable justice is also the God of unchangeable grace. By confessing our sin and

trusting in His grace, we trust that “the God of hope will fill you with all joy and peace in

believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope”.