Daily Advent Reading
This is our Digital Advent Calendar for 2023. We would hope you could join in daily during the season of Advent. Every day’s Advent Gift box will have a new Scripture to read and reflect on. Every Thursday there will be a Children’s Ministry Activity for you and your children. Every Tuesday there will be a question for adults to enjoy and engage on our Facebook page.
Revelation 3:20-22
20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.
21 To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne.
22 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
Devotional
In the book of Revelation, the Bible ends with the prayer: “Come, Lord Jesus.” It is a prayer that is echoed in many of the hymns we sing around the season of Advent. “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” and “Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus,” all echo the theme of Jesus’ return.
Christians have prayed this prayer from the earliest days. It is the oldest Christian prayer we know of that isn’t the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples to pray (Lord’s Prayer). We can trace it back because in 1 Corinthians 16:22 Paul quotes the original Aramaic version, Maranatha, which means “Our Lord, come!” For Paul to expect his Greek-speaking readers in Corinth to recognize this Aramaic phrase, it must have had a key place in early Christian worship.
Advent offers us a foretaste of a new creation. For that is what salvation is. We wait for him because we have met him already.