The Intertestamental Period
For four hundred years the Jewish people strained to reconcile their faith in God's promises of blessing with the ugly experience of life under a succession of increasingly malignant pagan rulers... "The promised Messiah was the focus of their longing: until his coming, they would seek to be faithful so taht God would speed the day. They would attempt to learn about the Torah at the synagogue and obey it as best they could. They would celebrate the festivals in their own towns and perhaps sometimes in Jerusalem. They would pray, keep the food laws and Sabbath, and circumcise their baby boys. And they would wait in hope.
In the context of this fervent expectation, a young man from Nazareth, the son of a carpenter, would announce that the kingdom of God had come to Israel and was even now present with him." The Drama of Scripture
Living faithfully in silence for four hundred years waiting for a voice a word from God--living on misison for God means sometimes that we must remain faithful in the silence.
THE VOICE
In silence, loud echoes of silence.
In the darkness, nothing.
In silence, loud echoes of silence.
In the darkness, wanting.
Desperately yearing to hear.
Pinching the ears in narrowness
and in the crevace--nothing.
Silence, loud echoes of silence.
A voice whispering on the echoe of silence.
A sound of hope, a sound in want.
A voice whispering on the echoe of silence.
A voice of a promise foretold.
Advent-the season that we expectactly wait in silence for the voice of hope, the voice of love, the voice of peace, and the voice of joy. God in breaking into our silence with a word of hope riding on a foretold promise--a promise that the messiah is here. Is peace silenced in your life, what about hope, love and joy....? This season reminds us that as we wait in times of silence on our journey of faith we can remain faithful until the in breaking of God's voice...a voice of a promise foretold. Our faithfulness is fueled on the hope that God is faithful to God's promises.
For four hundred years the Jewish people strained to reconcile their faith in God's promises of blessing with the ugly experience of life under a succession of increasingly malignant pagan rulers... "The promised Messiah was the focus of their longing: until his coming, they would seek to be faithful so taht God would speed the day. They would attempt to learn about the Torah at the synagogue and obey it as best they could. They would celebrate the festivals in their own towns and perhaps sometimes in Jerusalem. They would pray, keep the food laws and Sabbath, and circumcise their baby boys. And they would wait in hope.
In the context of this fervent expectation, a young man from Nazareth, the son of a carpenter, would announce that the kingdom of God had come to Israel and was even now present with him." The Drama of Scripture
Living faithfully in silence for four hundred years waiting for a voice a word from God--living on misison for God means sometimes that we must remain faithful in the silence.
THE VOICE
In silence, loud echoes of silence.
In the darkness, nothing.
In silence, loud echoes of silence.
In the darkness, wanting.
Desperately yearing to hear.
Pinching the ears in narrowness
and in the crevace--nothing.
Silence, loud echoes of silence.
A voice whispering on the echoe of silence.
A sound of hope, a sound in want.
A voice whispering on the echoe of silence.
A voice of a promise foretold.
Advent-the season that we expectactly wait in silence for the voice of hope, the voice of love, the voice of peace, and the voice of joy. God in breaking into our silence with a word of hope riding on a foretold promise--a promise that the messiah is here. Is peace silenced in your life, what about hope, love and joy....? This season reminds us that as we wait in times of silence on our journey of faith we can remain faithful until the in breaking of God's voice...a voice of a promise foretold. Our faithfulness is fueled on the hope that God is faithful to God's promises.
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