Opus 2025-592: Advent Calendar: Day 23, The Joyful Hope

If your church has the tradition of lighting the Advent candles you know that one of them represents hope.  Different churches observe the hope candle on different weeks.  Hope is one of the great concepts of the coming of the Christ Child.

I do not associate hope with Christmas in isolation.  It calls for hope because this is just the first chapter in the Book of The Word Became Flesh.  The place where hope takes over the narrative is in the empty tomb.  I don’t think that many people associate the full manger with the empty tomb but that is the purpose of the whole process.  The physical resurrection of Jesus is the assurance we have that there is more to eternity than having our sins forgiven.  There is a continued awareness of whom we are and a fellowship with the Incarnate One. 

So Merry Christmas and happy eternity.

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