Rev. Josh Condon
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This was the moment when Before — BC:AD — U.A. Fanthorpe |
The remoteness of Jesus’ entry into our world is something that I ponder every Advent. His coming was geographically remote. It was economically remote. It was chronologically remote. It was theologically remote.
At that moment when the heavens rejoiced in awe, almost every bit of the earthly inhabitants moved along unknowingly as though nothing had happened. And yet it was like yeast that once sown into dough not only can’t be removed, but begins to change the very nature of the dough itself. And we believe that Jesus’ incarnation as our messiah was the plan all along.
There is a sense that all the things that needed to transpire in this conceptual blink of an eye had been woven into creation from the start. The genealogy in Matthew draws us to contemplate such. The prologue in the Gospel of John poetically makes the point. When I think of these things, I think of Jesus telling the disciples to go and get the donkey that he would ride into Jerusalem. That beautiful beast will happen to be in the right place at the right time to serve the purpose of giving Jesus the symbolically peaceful entry that will come to result in a peace that we have to this day because of Him
.Which means for me that in my remote life, in my remote time and place in the grand scheme, Jesus can show up as well. There is no place, dear friends, that you are ever too remote for Jesus. This is the beauty of the incarnation that we anticipate in this holy season of Advent.
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