Advent: Day 7

Advent: Day 7

God's Holy Present 

"Serve the opportune time." The most profound matter will be revealed to us only when we consider that not only does the world have its time and its hours, but also that our own life has its time and its hour of God, and that behind these times of our lives traces of God become visible, that under our paths are the deepest shafts of eternity, and every step brings back a quiet echo from eternity. It is only a matter of understanding the deep, pure form of these times and representing them in our conduct of life. Then in the middle of our time we will also encounter God's holy present. 

"My Times are in your hand" (Ps. 31:15). Serve your times, God's present in your life. God has sanctified your time. Every time, rightly understood, is immediate to God, and God wants us to be fully what we are....Only those who stand with both feet on the earth, who are and remain totally children of earth, who undertake no hopeless attempts at flight to unreachable heights, who are content with that they have and hold on to it thankfully - only they have the full power of the humanity that serves the opportune time and thus eternity....The Lord of the ages is God. The turning point of the ages is Christ. The right spirit of the ages is the Holy Spirit.

(Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

**Thanks to Emily Brigham for sending me this passage today.**