Scripture of the Day: Luke 3:1-6

It's been wonderful watching all the holiday decorations being put up the last couple of weeks. Every night as I drive home I watch as more and more Christmas lights seem to glitter in the darkness of this time of year. I too spent time on a rickety ladder placing lights around our home in hopes of bringing some twinkle to the dark of this time of the year.

I can remember once flying home one Christmas season and looking out the window of the plane to see the magnificent lights of the Twin Cities. It was as if the whole metro area was guiding some awaited traveler to its doorsteps. Maybe in some way that’s what those holiday lights do.

John the Baptist tells us in these scriptures to prepare a way for the coming Lord, and the season of Advent proclaims again and again the coming of the hope, peace, joy, and love that we are longing for. Each and every year Christmas does come and with it a reminder that God has come to us and continues to come to us again and again with exactly what we’re looking for.

As you marvel at the lights that adorn this holiday season take a moment to remember what they’re for; to prepare a way for our coming savior, Jesus.