Seeker

On the 8th day of Advent the #AdventWord2018 is #wild. Today also happens to be the 2nd Sunday of Advent. Bursting on the scene, through the gospel reading on this day,is a man who emerges from the wilderness and preaches around the Jordan river. His name is John the Baptist. He is a cousin of Jesus. John the Baptist dresses in camel hair and leather and eats locusts and wild honey. There was nothing unusual about either his dress or his diet for people living in that wild desert region. What I see as most 'wild' about him was his fearless, passionate preaching.   John the Baptist was wild in the risks he took in his prophetic preaching.  Crowds come out to be baptised by him and he calls those coming, 'you brood of vipers'. This was because he saw that some of those who asked for his baptism of repentance, were not repentant, not willing to change the way that lived and so show the genuine fruits of repentance. John the Baptist was 'wild' in that he was...