Sunday, December 2nd
Jeremiah 33:14-16. 1 Thessalonians 3:4-6. Luke 11:25-28,34-36

The promise was made from the beginning that the power of righteousness, integrity and loving-kindness would be offered to the sons of men by the Most High that they might know and love Him and enter in His Kingdom of eternal life and light and love.

The promise was fulfilled and the Word of the Most High which had led and guided all who sought truth and righteousness since time began entered in the created world and through His life and death and risen life redeemed and – with and through Our Holy Sprit – sanctified (and sanctifies) according to the will and loving purpose of the Lord of All.

But the promise is also call and challenge to the sons of men, beloved sons and daughters of the Father – call to prepare and make ready heart and mind to receive the priceless Gift of the Incarnate Word and respond in faith and trust in the grace and power of His indwelling as Our Holy Spirit leads and guides.

Let one and all, communities and peoples awake to the promise, call and challenge which the Most High, father of all in earth and in heaven, is continually making and pray that the good purpose of His perfect will be fulfilled in you and, increasingly, in His world.