Advent is a wonderful time of year, a time for prayer and preparation. We prepare to celebrate the coming of the Christ-child. It is through Christ that we can know God’s wonderful gift of salvation. The wonderful thing about the gift of salvation is that there is nothing we can do to earn it and it is something that is here and now. We can obtain it in the very moment. We don’t have to do anything or wait for anything. There are no limits to it either.
Salvation is of course about faith. It is open to all who believe in Christ. Through Him we can be free of all that is in the past, all the things that hold us back from knowing true peace. We can ask for and know His forgiveness for our sin. Humanity’s brokenness and hopelessness was dealt with at the cross. As St Paul says in Romans - we can be completely free of condemnation. We can know the power of God’s grace.
We can come before God as ourselves without any pretence because we are His children. We can also be free of the need to find our own perfection because we know Christ’s perfection and in that we are motivated by love. We also know that nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ. We are transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit. We know freedom by the grace of God…A very great gift indeed….
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