Christmas Musings Day 3

 Christmas Musings Day 3

A Perfect Creation

Genesis 1:31 (ESV) ³¹ And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

               I love going up into the mountains. Fortunately, living in Lubbock places me near the tail end of the Rockies in New Mexico. This fall, while hiking near Sunspot enjoying the resplendent golden Aspens a breeze ruffled the trees, sending a shower of leaves down around Christy and me. The sublime movement of swirling gold against the cobalt sky so moved me that tears of joy leaked out of my eyes and trickled down my cheeks. The Romantic poets of the nineteenth century sought out such moments of transcendent beauty. The mountains afford us many such vistas, landscapes that all point to a creative hand shaping our universe…and we gaze upon a broken and failed world.

               Advent reminds me that God is not content to let things remain the same. He seeks to restore what is broken, to reclaim that which rightfully belongs to Him. The world He spoke into existence was perfect. The world I see remains spoiled. Yet, for brief moments His original desires and designs shine through, moving me to tears. Advent, that glorious moment when His glory broke through into our creaky and dark world, reminds me that He still breaks through. Unwilling to let things lie, He slipped, almost unnoticed, into the mess humanity made and started changing things. Advent heralds sublime change.