Psalm 146, 147, 111, 112, 113
Genesis 1:1-2:3
Ephesians 1:3-14
John 1:29-34
This morning I heard an interview with a
singer/songwriter/writer/poet (the list goes on). At one point, as this person
prepared to sing one of the songs being discussed, there was a period of audio
as the guitarist tuned his instrument. The banter of the interview discussed
the tuning and I was entranced and began to think that our recent periods of
Advent and Christmas were our tuning for this point – Epiphany. Today we
celebrate the revelation and presentation of Christ to us, but to be ready to
understand the extraordinary connection that happened between God and humankind
in that moment, we require the preparation to move our hearts and mind into the
moment.
The passage from Genesis takes us back to the beginning, as
God prepared the earth for humankind. The creation, day-by-day, established a
place where we could flourish and thrive. God interacted personally with his
creation in that time just as Christ interacted with the people in his time,
and possibly most importantly, just as the Holy Spirit continues to interact
with us in this time.
Creation. Epiphany. Pentecost. We spend time studying the
meaning in each of them and the functions of God, but the commonality between
them is that God connects directly with creation: God desires the relationship that
so many of the passages during Advent and Christmas described. Epiphany as a
day and a season demands that we recognize the relationship and actively join
into it.
Let us open our hearts to the direct connection that comes
from Epiphany when we concentrate on the presentation of the Christ child
centuries ago. We cannot forget that the arrival of Christ began an eternal,
direct connection between God and humankind.
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