“A voice proclaims: In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD! Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God! Every valley shall be lifted up, every mountain and hill made low; The rugged land shall be a plain, the rough country, a broad valley. Then the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.” (Isaiah 40:3-5)

The major theme for this Second Sunday of Advent is on our coming home experience to re-establish our relationship with God and others, challenging those who are angry, hurt with persistent grudges to come home to celebrate God’s loving embrace and true peace.

As Advent season yields to Christmas, many people take this opportunity to return home to visit family and friends to renew the bond of love, which makes us human and sustains us in the daily challenges of our lives.

Some homecomings are particularly poignant and even difficult, especially when there has been a recent divorce or death in the family, especially in this pandemic. Coming home to celebrate without loved ones seems to renew the sense of loss and dredges up sorrows.

Other homecomings are profoundly moving, fraught with an intensity of joy, which seems almost overwhelming. Coming home can mean the end of an ordeal and a new beginning. Human salvation is in fact our homecoming to God.

God does not want us holding a relationship of Transaction but Transformation. Therefore, Dynamic Christian disciples are those who (1) BELIEVE, (2) GROW, (3) SERVE, (4) LOVE and (5) LEAD others to Jesus. Today’s topic pertains to our coming home transformation into God’s LOVE to fulfill God’s will and obtain our salvation.

How can we help each other accept God’s loving invitation of homecoming to prepare for Christ Second Coming into our lives?

Wishing everyone a blessed week in the Lord.