In this season of Advent, this season of coming, we wait expectantly for His coming anew, we brim over with hope of this Jesus child that has come and we know this Jesus as Savior will come again and again. And our days are not filled with shopping and the hurry and hustle of the holiday but they are filled with a waiting, an excited waiting that waits upon the only Gift that was ever truly needed.
And in these early days of Advent we gather as friends, family really, brothers and sisters in Christ, and we stand on the sandy shore and we join in celebration with this young family that expectantly hopes on the Lord. And they confess ~ yes, they do confess, that Jesus is Lord and Savior and they enter into the cold waters and fulfill the commandment to "believe and be baptized."
Mark 16:16 ~ Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Matthew 28:19 ~ Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
And Will lays them back in the biting cold and they allow themselves to be laid low in the manner and the fashion that our Lord Jesus Christ was laid low and they surrender and they are poured out. And as surely as the man Jesus rose again, they too are pulled from the waters and as their sinful man spilled out, they now arise and are filled with the Spirit of the Living God. And we follow after the footsteps of our Jesus and we enter into this Holy mystery and trust that in the willful spilling of ourselves He will entirely fill us with something new, something heavenly. And they spill out and He fills, again and again.
And the young family walks a new course, one that was not laid out before them by the generations before, but a course laid out by their Heavenly Father, their Abba Father.
And children laugh and watch and are witness to an ancient rite, they witness the passing of the old and becoming that which is new.
And they shiver and laugh and we gather again. And as brothers and sisters in Christ we are privileged to offer up another act of obedience and worship and we bow heads and break bread and we do it in remembrance ~ remembrance of the body that was broken and the blood that was spilled. And we enter into repentance and walk into holy communion with the One that we wait on ~ this Jesus child, this man Jesus who wore our flesh, the Sinless One who bore our sins, this Savior ~ we find communion with Him in the cold waters and the sandy shores. And we are reminded that every moment is holy, every place sacred when you enter into communion with this Babe in a manager.
We are honored and grateful to run this race with those who too love our Jesus, we race on, even into the cold waters of the Atlantic, we race on.
And in these early days of Advent we gather as friends, family really, brothers and sisters in Christ, and we stand on the sandy shore and we join in celebration with this young family that expectantly hopes on the Lord. And they confess ~ yes, they do confess, that Jesus is Lord and Savior and they enter into the cold waters and fulfill the commandment to "believe and be baptized." Mark 16:16 ~ Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Matthew 28:19 ~ Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
And Will lays them back in the biting cold and they allow themselves to be laid low in the manner and the fashion that our Lord Jesus Christ was laid low and they surrender and they are poured out. And as surely as the man Jesus rose again, they too are pulled from the waters and as their sinful man spilled out, they now arise and are filled with the Spirit of the Living God. And we follow after the footsteps of our Jesus and we enter into this Holy mystery and trust that in the willful spilling of ourselves He will entirely fill us with something new, something heavenly. And they spill out and He fills, again and again.And the young family walks a new course, one that was not laid out before them by the generations before, but a course laid out by their Heavenly Father, their Abba Father.
And children laugh and watch and are witness to an ancient rite, they witness the passing of the old and becoming that which is new.
And they shiver and laugh and we gather again. And as brothers and sisters in Christ we are privileged to offer up another act of obedience and worship and we bow heads and break bread and we do it in remembrance ~ remembrance of the body that was broken and the blood that was spilled. And we enter into repentance and walk into holy communion with the One that we wait on ~ this Jesus child, this man Jesus who wore our flesh, the Sinless One who bore our sins, this Savior ~ we find communion with Him in the cold waters and the sandy shores. And we are reminded that every moment is holy, every place sacred when you enter into communion with this Babe in a manager.
We are honored and grateful to run this race with those who too love our Jesus, we race on, even into the cold waters of the Atlantic, we race on.
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