December 18th, 2013 Commentary to Henri Nouwen's Daily Meditation

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Wednesday December 18, 2013
The Fullness of Time

Jesus came in the fullness of time.  He will come again in the fullness of time.  Wherever Jesus, the Christ, is the time is brought to its fullness.

We often experience our time as empty.  We hope that tomorrow, next week, next month or next year the real things will happen. But sometimes we experience the fullness of time.  That is when it seems that time stands still, that past, present, and future become one; that everything is present where we are; and that God, we, and all that is have come together in total unity.   This is the experience of God's time.  "When the completion of the time came [that is: in the fullness of time], God sent his Son, born of a woman" (Galatians 4:4), and in the fullness of time God will "bring everything together under Christ, as head, everything in the heavens and everything on earth" (Ephesians 1:10).   It is in the fullness of time that we meet God.

My Commentary

When you come to think about it; whether or not we were created in God’s image… we think, do and experience many things in complete contrast to God.  We are a transactional people instinctively in the sense that everything we do, say or desire is quantified, finite.  Time as well can become an existential hole of disillusion and despair if all we do is focus on the days, the hours, minutes or months!

God however is infinite and transformational as well as the Gospel of Christ Jesus speaks to our need to transform in the Light of GRACE.  GRACE is the fullness of time when we allow ourselves to obediently discern and implement living our lives full of Hope, endurance, patience, HUMILITY, love, generosity as fruit from the heart, not expectation or reward. 

In the fullness of time, when we will see, experience and love God face to face… it will be like nothing we’ve ever imagined!  Everything we’ve built up out of our selfish idolatry and temporal thinking will disappear to the coming of GRACE itself—the Kingdom and its King.  Be in the Advent of your New life built within the tabernacle of the Holy Spirit’s work—The heart.  Live into that GRACE by being GRACE to others: (Romans 1:16-18 & Romans 2:29) “¹⁶For I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. ¹⁷For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith; as it is written, “The one who is righteous will live by faith.” ¹⁸For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of those who by their wickedness suppress the truth.  ²⁹Rather, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a matter of the heart—it is spiritual and not literal. Such a person receives praise not from others but from God.”

God Bless Your Wednesdays!

Nicole Collins