30 Days of Him, Day 1 - Diving In

Reading, I discovered the word "Advent" is from Latin, adventus, which means coming. If you add three letters to Advent, you get ADVENTURE. Saddle up your horses (we gotta a trail to blaze)

If you look in the Oxford English Dictionary, you frim that both Advent and Adventure are from the Latin word advenire, meaning "arrive", from which adventus and adventurus is from, meaning: About to Happen.

What if Advent isnt about waiting for something to happen, but saddling up those horses in God's Great Adventure?

Wise men saw the night sky and knew something was going to happen... so they hit the road. Shepherds saw the angels and ran to see if it was true. Joseph had dreams, and he obeyed them. Nobody just sat around during Advent.

And we shouldn't either. Why do we sit around and wait to figure out the next step before we move? God knows whats around the corner. Its about diving in, going deep, in over our heads, caught in the rush, caught in the flow, in over our heads we wanna go--the river's deep, the river's wide, the river's water is alive, sink or swim, I'm diving in.

I'm diving in

Have you ever come on anything quite like this extravangent generosity of God, this deep, deep wisdom? It's way over our heads. We'll never figure this out!
Is there anyone who can explain God? Anyone smart enough to tell him what to do? Anyone who has done him such a huge favor that God seeks HIM for advice?
Everything comes from him. Everything happens through him. Everything ends up in him. Always glory, always praise. -- Romans 11: 33-36 (Message)

I ask--ask the God of our Master, Jesus Christ, the God of Glory--to make you intelligent and discerning in knowing him personally, your eyes focused and clear, so that you can see exactly what it is he is calling you to do, grasp the immensity of this glorious way of life he has for his followers, the utter extravangance of his work in us who trust him--endless energy, boundless strength. -- Ephesians 1: 16-19 (Message)

I'm diving in.