Humble Glory

We are doing a 150 word advent devotion at church here is my contribution for today:

Reading: Malachi 3:1-6.

‘the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple’

Malachi looks forward to a day when prophetic hope would be fulfilled. In the midst of a passage about the LORD coming in judgement, we find that the Messiah’s coming that the prophet’s all point to is the LORD Himself, the LORD you seek is going to come, and He is going to come suddenly. He is coming to the Temple, God coming to deal with human sin, and our brokenness. Yet do you see how God works in surprising ways?  He the all powerful God is going to fulfil this visitation as a King in humble glory, glory but veiled in flesh, He doesn’t walk in, He is carried in the arms of His mother.  As one modern hymn writer puts it, ‘The hands that created the world, created the hands that are now holding Him.’ One of the wonders of Christmas is the humble glory of Christ.

Stephen <><