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We are in the season of Advent.
We've said that here were in the third week saying that were in the season of Advent and yet?
If we were to go outside these doors and give ourselves an assignment, some of us go to the mall over in Portage.
Others show up at the Walmart here or over there on 9th Street, maybe a few others show up at the Panera or the Biggby and we sit down with a questionnaire and asked everyone who came across our path.
Have they heard of the season of Advent?
Probably not many.
Would have heard of it.
They probably look at us with a little bit of confusion.
None of us want to look like we don't know what we're talkin about, or don't know Something do something like volunteer Advent that like like an Advent candle or an Advent wreath.
And that might be the extent of what we get out of people.
That sense of not really, knowing there is a season of Advent and really, they're living it out Anyways, they're in the process of preparing, as are we getting ready for Christmas?
Advent is all about coming.
Christmas is coming and of course, we're also getting ready.
For the return of Christ.
Advent is a season about coming, the coming of the Christ child and also the return of Christ.
And ya know we could explain that with our clipboard in hand and our pen as we mark off and explain to each person with the season of advent is and they say uh-huh Ya, thank you very much.
And they go away feeling maybe a little more educated but likely to forget everything we said within a week.
So how does one grasp, what is really going on?
Why were taking this time?
Perhaps you had the opportunity to look over the shoulder of your child, or even your grandchild, as they play with one of their screens.
And as they play one of their games, there is a remarkable thing that happens.
Maybe you've seen it.
There character, Something harmful happened to their character and they seem to be Nonplussed by it, not bothered by it, it's a non-issue because their character will come about again.
It'll be reborn or as they say in Minecraft respawned.
I got concerned about that when I first heard that in Minecraft, that's okay.
My character is going to spawn again over here.
What?
And they get their character back and they get to start all over, they get to start anew.
They like that beginning again.
So they're able to take risks and go forward and try things.
That's okay.
They can start again.
There's something powerful about restoration and being restored and so much of our Advent themes have circulated around the idea of being restored and there's a joy that comes with being able to start over that.
Life isn't done that.
You know, you get a flat on the highway and now you're thinking about changing your tire and wouldn't it be great if you could just push a button and you don't have a flat tire anymore?
How many are in favor of that?
Right.
Now we have something, what are children involved except for when they play Minecraft and, and if they're playing in survival mode and they lose their character and I know right now your eyes are glazing over.
Looks like your grandchild eyes glaze over when you start to tell him about your past.
When they respawn, they don't get any of their stuff back.
That's kind of a bummer, isn't it?
It's kind of a partial restoration.
It's not a complete restoration.
It's a partial restoration and Advent finds us in that middle Place of restored and not fully restored of the Kingdom coming.
But not yet fully here.
And so in Advent, we are preparing for the celebration of the coming of the Christ child, but we're also yearning, for our King to return and everything to be restored.
And so we've been focusing on three themes.
We focused on Hope and peace.
And this week.
We're focusing on Joy and we've been using the Psalms to bring us to these different elements of advent.
And so we're going to read from Psalm 126 and see if we can't hear that theme of Joy.
Let's take a moment to pray.
Lord, you know, precisely,
What we need to hear today.
What you want us to hear?
Oh, we may come today thinking.
We know.
Or even believing that there's not much we need to hear today.
But, you know, Lord.
You know, through your spirit, how to guide and mold and redirect us so that we might follow ever closer to you.
That we might become the people that you intend us to be.
Help us this morning O Lord to hear your word in Jesus name.
Amen.
We're in Psalm 126.
We're going to read the complete psalm.
It's a short psalm.
It begins this way.
When the Lord restore the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream that our mouth was filled with laughter and our tongue with shouts of joy.
Then they said, among the nation's, the Lord has done great things for them.
The Lord has done great things for us.
We are glad.
Restore our fortunes.
Oh Lord, like streams in the Negev.
Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of Joy.
He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing.
Shall come home with shouts of Joy, bringing his sheaves with him.
This is the word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
I want to do something.
And I'll ask our Tech Booth to help us.
I want to read this again.
This time.
I want you to catch what happens?
The first three verses speak of a past event.
And then there's a shift and it speaks of a future from verse 4 on.
And I would suggest to you that we are caught between verses 3 and 4.
So listen again.
When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream that our mouths were filled with laughter and our tongues with shouts of joy.
And he said, among the nation's, the Lord has done great things for them.
The Lord has done great things for us and we are glad
Restore our fortunes.
Oh Lord, like streams in the Negev.
Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of Joy.
He who goes out weeping.
Bearing the seed for sowing shall come home with shouts of Joy.
Bringing his sheaves with him.
Maybe this time you were able to catch that exchange that change from verse 3 to 4. This psalm, Psalm 126 is able to capture our reality in a way that few passages capture us completely.
It captures that past, as well as that future.
And yet holds Us in the Middle where we really are in that in-between place.
That's where we find ourselves between what has happened and what is yet to happen and the psalmist is speaking from that in-between place.
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