Last night, I was reading Ancient-Future Time by Robert Webber. It's one of the installments of his Ancient-Future book series. There's a passage where Webber is talking about Advent worship and the prophet Isaiah that really got me thinking. Let me share it with you:
"In Advent worship we are lifted up to sing with the angels, the archangels, and the seraphim, 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!' (Rev. 4:8). Unfortunately, we frequently fail to see what Isaiah saw. We allow the goals, ambitions, and everyday responsibilities of life to be so central to our thoughts that we fail to shut down and center on the Holy One, the Creator, the One who is high and lifted up above all that is. Isaiah saw above the details of his own life and the issues of his nation. By faith he went to the very heart of human existence itself. Like Isaiah we need to get beyond the form of our worship. We need to experience the presence of the one who stands over us to judge us, heal us, and restore us to life."
I know we are not in the season of Advent. The book is about shaping our spirituality around the Christian year. It talks about how the church should take the journey through the life, ministry, and death of Jesus as we seek to draw near to Him. He challenges the church and it's leaders to get beyond the self-help model of many contemporary churches and to start dealing with the Source of what our worship is all about...Jesus.
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