Preparing the Way for Peace
How are you preparing the way for peace in your life? What does preparing the way for God and God’s peace look like?
We are called to prepare the way for God and God’s peace in our lives.
In the Gospel of Matthew, the word of God tells us, “In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, ‘The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.’” (Matthew 3:1-3. ESV)
There are many obstacles and barriers to God’s presence and peace in our lives and in this fallen world. The pathway of God’s presence and peace can be crooked and uneven.
As followers of Jesus, we are called to repentance and to making the path of God’s presence and peace straight and level.
May we prepare the way for God’s presence and peace in our lives, this Advent and always.
“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope” (Romans 15:13, ESV).
A Collect for the Second Sunday in Advent: “Blessed Lord, who caused all Holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and the comfort of your holy Word we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
