Experiencing Advent in the Age of AI

Historically, Advent has always been a season of waiting. It’s a time of longing, watching, and preparing our hearts for the coming of Christ, inviting us into stillness in a world that never slows down.

And yet, here we are, experiencing Advent in the age of artificial intelligence.

We live in a time when answers are instant, content is automated, and productivity is praised above presence. Algorithms anticipate our desires before we can even name them. Efficiency has become a celebrated virtue. Waiting feels unnecessary—almost offensive.

But Advent refuses to be rushed.

Advent reminds us that God’s greatest work entered the world slowly. Quietly. Unannounced. Not through power or spectacle, but through an infant born in obscurity after centuries of silence.

In an age of AI, Advent asks different questions:

• Are we still able to make room for mystery?
• Can we sit with unanswered prayers?
• How do we resist the urge to optimize what God intends to unfold supernaturally?

While AI can generate words, images, even sermons in seconds, it cannot replace incarnation. AI cannot suffer, hope, grieve, or wait. It cannot carry the weight of longing that lives in the human soul. That sacred tension belongs to us—human beings created in the image of God.

Advent is countercultural.

As technology accelerates everything around us, Advent beckons us to slow down. AI produces endless output, Advent invites us into presence. Digital tools promise control, Advent teaches surrender.

This doesn’t make technology the enemy. Like any tool, AI can serve good purposes; even holy ones. Our digital spaces can be places of encouragement, prayer, and shared hope. In the midst of this technological revolution, Advent reminds us that these new tools aren’t a replacement for spiritual formation.

We are not waiting for a new software update. We are waiting for Jesus—God with us—to come back.

In the age of AI, Advent reminds us that not everything can be automated:
faithfulness during dark times,
hope in times of uncertainty,
and love that enters the world through vulnerability of a little baby.

Advent teaches us to wait because God is always doing more than we can see.

Even now.

Until my next post…

Be salty, stay lit.

Rainer Bantau —The Devotional Guy™

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