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While Advent calls us to confess the nearness of God, the world tempts us to feel His distance. With each public tragedy or senseless killing, the cry goes up “Where is God?” The world wrestles with God’s presence in moments of suffering, and God’s people wrestle too. Paul, however, brings a message of hope. That hope is centered in Jesus. When people stand and glare at the heavens in hopeless anger, crying out “Where is God?,” Jesus comes and bears God’s anger, so that His people can proclaim, “God is here.” God makes himself known in a word of reconciliation, in the waters of baptism, and in his body and blood. His presence gives hope. Read 2 Corinthians 5:14-6:2 and Luke 4:16-21.