Advent: Christ, Our Hope

Christians are much like the exiles who returned from Babylon and longed for the fullness of the kingdom. After we are baptized into Christ, many more days follow before the Final Day. Good Friday was followed by Easter, yet the church still cries, “Come, Lord Jesus” (Rev. 22:20); we live between Good Friday and Easter Sunday on “a Saturday” that has become the longest of days.
— R. Lessing