David
Life
Glory…hardship

Not sure

Saul?
King?
Absalom?
He seems old

Waiting
Vs. 3 and vs. 21

Advent
Waiting…

Seerveld:

This Advent is a farce, a dumb show, if all it points towards is that which historically, irrevocably has already happened: Christ’s entrance into time. The Christmas Advent takes on biblical meaning only when believers see flickering, simultaneously, back and forth, past and future, the manger scene tableau and the grown Christ gloriously descending as the powerful head of an army of veteran angels. When Christ’s first coming is waited for as an exercise in waiting for his second coming, then Advent will have the right…focus. —Calvin Seerveld, Take Hold of God and Pull

People of God

, grafted, full member
Their story - my story
Remembering how we waited
So, that I can wait now

Psalm 25 gives us

David

Deep love for God
Vs. 4-6, 8-10
Overcome with suffering
His own

Reveal Answer

outside

Feel his torment, yearning, longing
Waiting looks like

Another choice:

Whatever feels great at first
My own sin: whatever
I can go my own way
Dismiss it as common and ignore the shame

Enemies
Not care about them, or if change what I care for

- just go for what works
Pressure here, then go there

But over time it becomes lonely
Whatever means I’m not anchored, I am adrift

Christ
Advent season - Christ’s reign has arrived
He did not look at us and say, “Whatever”
He came after us
Christmas - I am pursued and loved by God

Life
Abundantly
Not whatever but

Sin
It matters because you matter
Took it on himself

Enemies
Truth, goodness, beauty - this matters

Loved
The whole world matters
Called to

Easy to see the hurt of the world - whatever?
Because I am so loved - forever loved

Sin, Brokenness around me
Burden to see and know that there is something so much better coming for the

Love and Longing go together
Special calling of the beloved
Yearn for the one who loves us
From whatever to forever

Come to the

Meet again the One who kept his promise
Long for the day when he’ll keep it again