2015年12月3 日（木）③ニューイングランドの母校からアドヴェントメッセージの便り　その5

2015 Gordon-Conwell Advent Devotional
Day 5
Mark 1:1-8
Most of us are too busy to slow down. Kind of odd, huh? Our lives move at such a pace that we can barely remember what’s actually important any longer. If our lives are a story, the story seems to have too much filler and too little real plot. It probably wouldn’t make a good novel, would it?

By contrast, the story of Jesus moves with the feel of an epic drama. It is almost too grand to keep fully in view. Here in Mark 1, we learn that the epic drama of Jesus doesn’t begin with his birth. John the Baptist, the last of the Old Testament prophets, tells us that the story of Jesus goes back even to Isaiah,and　representatively in Isaiah to the whole of the Old Testament. And what John the Baptist tells us about that story here in the first chapter of Mark, as the whole of the Old Testament tells us, is that the Messiah will give us the breath of life itself. Jesus’ mark on the ages will be the gift of life, which is nothing less than the gift of the Holy Spirit. This is a story too good to be too busy to miss.

May your life slow down long enough to savor the Savior’s story.
Dr. Richard Lints
Vice President for Academic Affairs; Andrew Mutch Distinguished Professor of Theology
Dr. Richard Lints
Vice President for Academic Affairs; Andrew Mutch Distinguished Professor of Theology