Like Noah after flood, Christ calls us today to call God anew in Advent.
Looking at the early bible book of Genesis, almost every well-lit theological light comes on when it’s understood that Genesis was a pagan world and that God began by revealing himself to pagans through characters in Genesis. Those characters point also to the coming of an anointed one, the Christ. Noah saved a line of souls from destruction and became a new start for us, just like Christ. It was after the deluge that human souls “began to call on the name of the Lord.”
The upcoming stories of Abraham and Moses and David (coinciding respectively with weeks 2, 3, and 4 of Advent) all point to Christ. Advent is, in its essence, a way of joining our view to those without a view of Jesus, the Christ, and waiting for Him to light our darkness. It lets us be more than ‘a little’ like the rest of the human race, including pagans and sinners, as we’re helped to realize that we are lost in darkness except for the light of Christ being lit in our lives, renewed even in this season.
May we, all over again, come to “call on the name of the Lord” this Christmas as we see afresh God getting through to us despite, or maybe because of, our tendency to just ‘not get it’, to just not ‘get’ what God’s light and love are all about.