We’re often so busy looking forward to the next thing, we forget to look around at the people alongside us on the journey.
I’m writing this in the middle of Advent, a season in which millions of Christians around the globe commemorate the first coming of Jesus. But Advent isn’t the celebration of Jesus’ birth. It’s all about the period of time leading up to his birth in which the world – the nation of Israel, in particular—awaited the coming of a Savior and Redeemer who would finally fix all the messes we’ve made.
Now, Christians await Jesus’ second coming, and while believers have all kinds of different viewpoints on what and when the second coming of Jesus will look like, we collectively believe that his return will usher in the ultimate salvation and renewal of all things, the end of suffering and conflict, and a peaceful eternal rest for all who desire it from him.
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