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Intro/Facing Reality
Small things have a tendency to make us look at the world around us and feel defeated.
Big things beat us down even harder.
And there are a lot of big bad things:
Political tension
Natural disaster
War
Genecide
We just finished the Story of God and the bad things that we covered:
Fickle people through Judges
Dominant Kings
Exile
Persecution
Too much power
Crusades
Spanish Inquisition
Personal big things
Divorce
Substance abuse
Sexual abuse
Family estrangment
Loss of loved ones
Loss of valuable resources
Lost a job
Lots of debt
Now, imagine you go through these things in society and where you used to hear God clearly and see Him move, now there is silence.
Setup
People can’t keep from breaking God’s heart
God is silent for 400 years after promising a savior
Then...
Mary
Barrenness repeatedly threatens the promise of fertility in Israel’s story, and God’s intervention repeatedly preserves the lineage.
The decent of the Spirit of God in this text is similar to the Acts passage and pentecost.
the spirit of God, hovered figuratively over the waters.
Thus, Mary’s visitation by the Spirit is described so as to suggest that the Spirit of God hovers over Mary in a new act of creation (see Brown 1979, 290).
Overshadowed!!!!
Arrival
Oxford English Dictionary:
Luke 2:
1 tower above and cast a shadow over.
2 cast gloom over.
Implications
3 appear more prominent or important than.
be more impressive or successful than.
What this means for us...
With all of the brokenness around us and in us, we have a God who promises to overshadow us.
Christ Overshadows
There is hope that whatever we come across, because of what God did through Advent, we have hope that He is the one who is greater than.
He is doing a work.
He will overshadow.
He could have left us alone in our brokenness
God wants to do something with our brokenness, we are not left to our own devices.
What looms large in your life this Holiday season?
Marriage trouble?
Have you ever felt abandoned?
Alone in your fight?
Christ among us should give you hope that you are not alone.
Inadequacy?
Loss?
Limited resources?
Emptiness?
Come to the alter today and let God overshadow you.
May that be the first step toward more hopeful living this Advent Season
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