it's the 26th...Advent has reached it's conclusion...the season of expectation has come and ended...now what? john the baptist says bear fruit in keeping with repentance. i enjoy john...dude's fiery, he's got no problem getting in your face...me, i'll butter ya up for a solid 20 before i work up the courage to confront :). its that straight-forward message that i think we'd all be wise to listen to. it cracks me up how he was called to Prepare the Way for the Lord, to bring every mountain and hill low, and make the rough roads smooth... 'to make ready a people prepared for the Lord'...as if humanity was any kind of ready for what the Christ-child was going to be like...
...and yet some of Christ's disciples, were John's first...when people began to go to Christ, John said, 'he must become greater, i must become less.' maybe, just maybe, that's what now...we bear fruit in keeping with repentance, not that we might make our place secure (as if we could), but because we are called to bear witness to the already-not yet kingdom so that when it comes there have been made ready a people prepared for the Lord...
bear some fruit
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i love you my friend.
good stuff...as always.
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