“What is coming upon the world is the Light of the World. It is Christ. That is the comfort of it. The challenge of it is that it has not come yet. Only the hope for it has come, only the longing for it. In the meantime we are in the dark, and the dark, God knows, is also in us. We watch and wait for a holiness to heal us and hallow us, to liberate us from the dark. Advent is like the hush in a theater just before the curtain rises. It is like the hazy ring around the winter moon that means the coming of snow which will turn the night to silver. Soon. But for the time being, our time, darkness is where we are” (Frederick Buechner, The Hungering Dark).

Advent officially starts in 6 days (according to Google– yes, I googled that). 

I’ve come to appreciate the season of Advent more lately than I ever had before. It’s a season of waiting with hope, with expectation, with certainty.

We wait with hope because it is God in Jesus whom we wait for.

We wait with expectation because of all the promises fulfilled, knowing God is always true to His word.

We wait with certainty because we know that as Jesus came to us before, so will He come again one day. The manner of His coming will be different as night is to day, but it will be the same longed-for Messiah who is coming.

So we wait.