“You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning,
and the heavens are the work of your hands;
they will perish, but you remain;
they will all wear out like a garment,
like a robe you will roll them up,
like a garment they will be changed.
But you are the same,
and your years will have no end.”
Hebrews 1:10-12
I imagine that you, like us, have lately retrieved some containers from your attic or basement. Our children enjoy these first “presents” of the season where they rediscover the beautiful Advent treasures we’ve been hiding since last January when we packed them away.
One treasure we added last year was a set of small folding paper stars. Betsy and I picked them up at the Christkindlmarket last year in Daley Plaza, Chicago. Each child picked out one star in particular and now the set brightly declares the season in one window of our home.
The verses above reveal that, like us with our paper stars, Christ will one day roll up the real stars of the universe as an age or “season” ends. These stars will pass. Likewise, the years do pass for a purpose, that we would see the surpassing and eternal glory of Jesus Christ our Lord.
