SERMON SHORT FOR NOVEMBER 29th, 2020

SERMON SHORT FOR NOVEMBER 29th, 2020

Advent 1

Tear open the heavens and come down!

 

Isaiah 64:1-9, 1st Corinthians 1:3-9

            “O that you would tear open the heavens and come down so that the mountains would quake at your presence.”

          The prophetic words of Isaiah. The plea and prophecy of a people and for a people in the agony of exile; separated from home and loved ones – nationhood crumbled – despair of the downtrodden – their children ripped from them – their holy treasures desecrated – beset upon by enemies and forsaken by the God of their ancestors.  Too much has gone wrong.  Everything has gone wrong.  Where is God?  How could this happen?   “O that you would tear open the heavens and come down so that the mountains would quake at your presence.”

Do you hear these words as ancient and distant? Or are you feeling these words now in 2020 – the year of covid?

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