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The Season of Advent is a season of Hope. Hope is the confident expectation of God’s miracles in made manifest in our lives. Hope is not a dream. Hope is not a wish. Hope is not an imagination. Hope is a reality. Hope is what sustains through our darkness hours. Hope is what lifts our spirits when frustration surrounds us. Hope is what empowers when the bonds of sin capture us. Hope is what moves us to action when the world says all is lost.
The prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Hosea and others had to give grim prophesies to the people of Israel. Because of their sin their cites were to be burn, their families torn asunder, their finances plunder, their spouses separated from them, their temples pillaged , their armies destroyed, their country invaded and they were to be thrown into slavery. On top of all of that ,they had to be told that it was their God who allowed this to happen.
But throughout these grim pronouncements, throughout theses devastating turn of events, throughout these difficult and harrowing circumstances, there was still hope. Hope in a child to be born of virgin, hope in a child clothed in swaddling clothes, hope in child to be born in a manger, hope in a child that would be called wonderful counselor, mighty God, prince of peace, king of Kings and Lord of Lords, hope in a child that shall be called Emmanuel or God is with us; that hope, our hope, is Jesus!