Today's readings throb with shouts to our God, joy, singing, glory, awesome deeds, cringing enemies, and all the earth bowing (Psalms 66,67). There's a touch of Hollywood biblical extravaganza. This is followed, in Isaiah 11, with nations rallying to the banner of the Root of Jesse, a Messianic title.
Here we see a stunning and vibrant view of that passion which our all-loving God offers to us.
It's sad that such divine excitement has today been pushed out of too many lives by mall excitement.
Mixed with all this drama is a bit of wonder and even whimsy regarding the mothers of two key players in the story. Why, the mother of the yet-unborn John the Baptist should never have even been a mother, not at her age! That oddity is topped by the mother of a saviour being a virgin.
Is the God behind all this strange, or even teasing us? Or is all this part of an enormous love we will never begin to understand?
The readings for Tuesday of Advent IV are Psalm 66, 67, Isa. 11:10-16, Rev. 20:11––21:8, and Luke 1:5-25.
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