Sunday, December 3, 2000
Sunday, December 3, 2000
The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: "Prepare the way of the Lord, make
his paths straight,"
Al Lingren, a professor at Garrett Evangelical Seminary tells about taking his junior-high-school
son fishing. It was one of those days when the fish wouldn't bite, so the two of them had a lot of
time to talk. Out of the blue his son asked, "Dad, what is the toughest thing God ever tried to
do?"
Al said that the question caught him, a minister, off guard. He didn't know what to say, and so
like a good teacher answered a question with a question. "What do you think it was son?" he
asked.
His son responded, "Even though you're a minister you don't know much about God, do you,
Dad?" The boy then proceeded to answer his own question. "Since taking science in school, I
thought the creation of the world might be the hardest thing God ever tried to do," he said. "In
Sunday School we got to talking about some of the miracles, like Jesus' resurrection, and I
thought that might be the toughest thing God ever did. Then after thinking some more and talking
to others, I decided that no one knows God really well. So now I think that the toughest thing
God ever tried to do is to get us to understand who God is and that God loves us."
(Mark 1:3
NRSV)
In verse 4 of our scripture reading, John says, "Prepare the way of the Lord." The first important
point about Christmas is that God has come down to us. God's creation had wavered from the
truth, so God was coming to show the world how to live in relationship with God.
Loving God, help me to know of your love more fully today, so that I may share it. Amen.
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