Archimedes and Advent...esspresso on the floor

"Give me a place to stand and I will move the world"... This is the common translation for Archimedes' declaration that if you have a fulcrum and a long enough lever you can move an object of infinite size. So theoretically speaking, if he could develop a long enough lever he could move the earth....

True as this statement is, the problems lie in the fact that we cannot build a lever that large and there the world needs to move in a deeper fashion that simply physically.

This is the problem, and the solution of Advent...

The Hebrews knew (as we all should if we are paying attention) that the world needed to be moved. It was busted because babies were dying, folks were committing murder, and the physical world produced hardship (among other things like idol worship). They had done their best using the fulcrum of their hearts and the lever of the law but it had failed...not because of the lever, but because the fulcrum was in the wrong place... (see Numbers 11:23 and Isaiah 59:1)

So enter the Advent solution: a new fulcrum (see Ezekiel 36:25-27) and a new lever (John 1:14)....
and ever since that first not-so-silent-night the world has moved indeed...

So are you trying to move the world on your own? Sure, you can do some good things, but that's just budging the world. For me, my little earth-moving-place is a  stool I bought in seminary. I sit on it, drink espresso and read of the saving acts of the loving God who rocked the world through a little baby...and I move the earth by starting with myself.
blessed Advent to you all
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