Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Matthew chapter 24 verses 36-37 and 42-44:
36 ‘But about that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37For as the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man . . .42Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. 43But understand this: if the owner of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. 44Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour.
The time of Advent is a time of waiting. It is time for anticipation and preparation and making ready. For the Son of Man comes at an unexpected hour and in unexpected ways.
He comes knocking on the door, a stranger whose strange spirit begs something in us to let him into our lives.
He comes as a child, looking for a mentor, a teacher, a parent, a friend.
He comes as an old woman lying in a nursing home bed, her eyes looking out into the hall, hoping for a some visitor to stop and bring conversation for Christmas.
He comes as a friend in the midst of sadness and grief here at the holidays, for whom lunch provided or a load of laundry done would be the most blessed of miracles.
He comes as person whose story or viewpoint begs to be heard and taken seriously.
He comes as some “squeezing, wrenching, grasping, clutching, covetous old sinner” like Ebenezer Scrooge, who somewhere down deep also has the light of Christ within, and is just waiting for someone to help him find it.
He comes. He is coming. He shall come again.
He may very well come today.
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