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Denver Seminary Christmas Devotional 2013

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On December 14 last year, we came face to face with death and sorrow in a way that threatened to make a mockery of the joy that we sing about during the Advent season. On that day, evil walked the hallways at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. On that day and for many days afterward, scoffers and believers alike asked, "Where was God when this happened?" The great truth of Christmas is this: "He was right there―and He's right here, right now!" The incarnation of Jesus Christ is the ultimate expression of God's engagement with our battered, broken, and rebellious world. Rather than shun those who have turned their backs on Him or remain indifferent to the plight of a world that has no solution to the universal presence of evil and unavoidable specter of death, God has entered our mess and brought hope that can be found nowhere else. As Philip Yancey so eloquently noted, "God has chosen to respond to our predicament not by waving a magic wand to make evil disappear, but by joining us and absorbing it in His very person." He is right here, right now;―Immanuel, God with us! Our prayer is that this Advent devotional will help you see Him afresh, hear Him anew, and walk with Him daily as you anticipate our grand celebration of the day when "The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood" (John 1:14, The Message). To Him be the glory, Mark Young

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