Decision time!
There are plenty of sermons preached at this time of the year about Advent being not just about that waiting period before Christmas and the celebration of Jesus’ birthday, but also about the waiting time before the Second Coming of Christ - and that’s all well and good, but rather irelevant for the 90% of Brits who don’t go to Church to hear those wise words.
I’m reminded, reading John’s Gospel and particularly Chapter 8 where Jesus is talking to some Jews, that it’s not the Second Coming that’s so important for the vast majority of this country’s population, but the first!
‘When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know I am the one I claim to be’ said Jesus to the unbelieving Jews, along with a warning that they were going to ‘die in their sin’, a very harsh assessment of their lives one might think. But it emphasised that there is a time, and a finite time for all men to come to that understanding of just who Jesus was and is, or alternatively shut themselves off from God forever.
It’s not a decision to put off until another day, for that opportunity might not come.
Advent is about making our minds up - Who is Jesus, and how does that affect my life?
