Advent 2023: Our Hope – God Can’t Be Kept Out

I’ve been on a bit of a @rachelheldevans binge, it would seem. 😅 However, as we celebrate the first Sunday in Advent today, counting down to Christmas, I love this powerful reminder of how ✨𝕚𝕣𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖✨ the Incarnation was. In the fullness of time, God entered our reality in Jesus–amidst scandal, persecution, foreign occupation–and could not be kept out.

He 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 be kept out!

He wants to be present. He wants to be here… with us.

That is why we call Him, “Emmanuel,” which means, “God with us.”