“Are we there yet?”
Parents
often hear these words from their children as their family travels on a long
trip—or even a short one. Young children have an underdeveloped sense of time
and distance that prevents them from understanding how long a journey will
take.
God’s
people often have an underdeveloped sense of the gap that exists between our
lives and God’s kingdom vision. We would like to think we are decent people who
just need a few minor adjustments to become right with God. We might
rationalize, “If I lose a little weight, try a little harder to be nice to my neighbours,
and give a little money to charitable causes, then I will really have my life
together.” In reality, there is much more that keeps us from God’s ideals.
The
distance between God’s ideals and humanity’s ideals was so great that Jesus did
not merely come into the world without advance preparation. God sent someone to
get us ready for him. John, the son of Zechariah and Elizabeth, came to help
people recognize that the condition of this world needed a major turnaround. He
called God’s people to repent and to experience a new way of life (not just a
few minor adjustments) that would be signified in baptism. John helped people
to realize the problem before they could be prepared to see the solution in
Christ.
Prayer
Lord
Jesus, help me to glimpse the kind of glory you are calling me to, so that I am
ready to make a radical turn from the ways of this world, to embrace you. In
your name. Amen.
Taken from Today Daily Devotional.
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