Advent 2 – Lord
Leader: As our nights grow longer
and our days grow short,
we look on these earthly
signs--light and green branches--
and remember God's promise to our
world:
Christ, our Light and our Hope,
will come.
Listen to the words of Ezekiel the prophet:
“A new heart I will give you, and a
new spirit I will put within you;
and I will remove from your body
the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
I will put my spirit within you,
and make you follow my statutes and be careful
to observe my ordinances. Then you shall live
in the land that I gave to your
ancestors; and you shall be my
people, and I will be your God.”
(Ezekiel 36:26-28)
The connection here is found
throughout scripture. Those who love justice are the people whom God
embraces and upon whom God bestows the greatest of mercies. A new heard,
a new spirit, following God's statutes and ordinances -- these are the signs of
true covenant people. These are folks who embrace The Lord as their
singular God, and who are in turn the people entitled to the designation
"the people of God."
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