Peace of Christ
I liked what This Classical Life had to say about Advent.
Our small group has been following up on the Sunday sermons, and this first week of advent, we studied Isaiah 11. My main impression from the passage was the image of the lion, lamb, wolf, kid, cow, and bear all laying down together in the peace that Jesus brings. I've always recognized this image for the absence of violence, but this time, I was struck by the absence of fear as well. The lion does not devour the lamb, and at the same time, the lamb rests without fearing that danger.
I'm going to mediate on that image this week. While we eagerly await the transformation that Christ will work in the world, how great would it be to share that kind of peace with our community today?
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These thoughts have stuck with me the last day or so since I've read them... meditating on whether we focus on a lack of trouble instead of longing for peace and faith. The last sentence immediately got the song "let there be peace on earth" in my head. Does anyone else remember food lion using that as their Christmas commercial?
I've been thinking about making an entry here soon about the nonviolence of Jesus, as it's something that's really changed the way I look at most everything on both a personal and a global scale in the last couple years.
I think we as Christians and as humans spend a lot of time being afraid of things that we really don't need to fear. And precisely because Jesus did NOT 'practice' fear, I think that's why he could live nonviolently. This is not as well-put-together as I'd like it to be, between coming off a night shift and my own thoughts not being as complete as I'd like...but this is great food for thought.