a new Start???
for your thinking Advent---a new start? Isaiah 64:1-9 How to begin again? How do we find ourselves caught as it were and then find a way out? The Apostle in I Corinthians 10:13 says there is “ a way of escape that you may be able to endure it.” These were the questions on the mind of the people as Isaiah wrote to them 745-695 BC . The nation of northern Israel was carried off into captivity by the Assyrians. Later Judah too fell. 46 cities were destroyed and 200,000 were taken. There was deliverance from the angel of God in 701 BC . Isaiah, literally, “ salvation of the Lord” spoke to the people about how the situation and how God was truly their only hope. Today we light the first candle of Advent, sometimes called, the candle of hope. Our nation as well today may be in captivity in some ways if we think about it….wars continue, debilitating debt continues without relief, and we look for deliverance. We look for a change, someone to help. But have we not had the