The biblical readings appointed for the Second Sunday of Christmas (1 Samuel 3:1–10, Romans 12:1–5 and John 10:22–30) remind us that God desires a relationship with us and speaks to us even when heaven sometimes seems silent.
God speaks to Samuel at a time when the night around him appeared dark and “the word of the Lord was rare in those days” (1 Samuel 3:1). It was as though heaven were locked and God far away. Yet God is never far from anyone and seeks communion with his creatures.
God made contact with us most directly and visibly in Christ. In him we see the Father, and when we heed his voice we are kept as members of his flock and led to good pasture and the springs of the water of life. Then we will never perish, for no one can snatch from the Lord’s hand those who have become his own (John 10).
When we have heard the Lord’s voice, the fitting response is to heed it and present our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God (Romans 12:1). Thus, serving God wholeheartedly as individuals and together, we are the Body of Christ also in twenty-first-century Estonia—and as such we ourselves become his address to the world.
Welcome to church today at 10:00; coffee will follow. Serving are the Revd Joel Pulk, Deacon Hanno Saks, who will preach, Andres Riivits and Henn Kaaleb Humal. Aaro Tetsmann will play the organ.
