December 5, 2020 Advent Reflection

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December 5

Genesis 11:1-9

11  1 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. 4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth." 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. 6 And the LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech." 8 So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth.

Grant, Almighty God,
that as Thou hast not only in Thy law prescribed to us
what is right and shown us the way of a godly life,
but hast also more clearly revealed Thy will to us
by the light of Thy gospel, where Christ Thy Son
shines forth as the Sun of Righteousness –
O grant that we may submit ourselves wholly to Thee,
and from the heart render Thee obedience,
and to this apply all our efforts and direct all our doings,
so that, having finished the course of this life,
we may at length come into that blessed rest
that has been prepared for us in heaven by
Christ our Lord. Amen.

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