The word 'advent' comes from a latin word that means "coming". So this season isn't just a time for us to take advantage of all the best online gift deals or put up lights or get our family picture Christmas cards sent to all our friends. Those things are fine, but not the focus of this time.
This is a season for us to step back and think about Jesus' first coming or 'advent' to earth as a baby. And to remember and thank Him that He has promised a second coming or 'advent' one day where He will make all things right.
This year I'm walking through a daily Advent devotional with 3 dear friends that focuses on the message of Jesus in familiar Christmas carols (Born a Child and Yet a King: The Gospel in the Carols by Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth). Did you know that the word "come" is the most common theme in these songs we sing every year? Just stop and think of all the songs that include the word 'come' or the phrase 'O Come'...
I'm so grateful that He came to us as a baby to rescue us from our sins. And yet oh how I yearn for Him to come to us still!
There are days that I long for Him to come and be present and speak to me. Or I long for him to come and comfort me in my grief, or to restore joy, new life and hope in my heart. I long for Him to come to my friends who do not know Him yet. I long for Him to come and rescue us from this current COVID situation and the quarantine and isolation and hardship that it has brought to many. I long for Him to one day come and make all things right for eternity!
But in the midst of my longing for Him to come to me, He also invites me to come to Him.
I pray that you will look back this Advent season and be reminded of how He came to us in the form of a baby. And "God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him" (John 3:17). What good news!
I pray that you will look forward this Advent season, remembering that He promises to come again and make all things right! Again, what incredible news!
And I pray that you will look within this Advent season, at all the ways He comes to you as well as the ways He calls you to come to Him.
The Coming of the King is a free advent devotional. Just click on the link and sign up for the daily advent devotionals in your email or download the packet including all 27 days. I hope you enjoy this small gift, and may you experience the hope, peace, joy and new life in Jesus as you come to Him through this Advent season.
This is a season for us to step back and think about Jesus' first coming or 'advent' to earth as a baby. And to remember and thank Him that He has promised a second coming or 'advent' one day where He will make all things right.
This year I'm walking through a daily Advent devotional with 3 dear friends that focuses on the message of Jesus in familiar Christmas carols (Born a Child and Yet a King: The Gospel in the Carols by Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth). Did you know that the word "come" is the most common theme in these songs we sing every year? Just stop and think of all the songs that include the word 'come' or the phrase 'O Come'...
I'm so grateful that He came to us as a baby to rescue us from our sins. And yet oh how I yearn for Him to come to us still!
There are days that I long for Him to come and be present and speak to me. Or I long for him to come and comfort me in my grief, or to restore joy, new life and hope in my heart. I long for Him to come to my friends who do not know Him yet. I long for Him to come and rescue us from this current COVID situation and the quarantine and isolation and hardship that it has brought to many. I long for Him to one day come and make all things right for eternity!
But in the midst of my longing for Him to come to me, He also invites me to come to Him.
I pray that you will look back this Advent season and be reminded of how He came to us in the form of a baby. And "God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him" (John 3:17). What good news!
I pray that you will look forward this Advent season, remembering that He promises to come again and make all things right! Again, what incredible news!
And I pray that you will look within this Advent season, at all the ways He comes to you as well as the ways He calls you to come to Him.
The Coming of the King is a free advent devotional. Just click on the link and sign up for the daily advent devotionals in your email or download the packet including all 27 days. I hope you enjoy this small gift, and may you experience the hope, peace, joy and new life in Jesus as you come to Him through this Advent season.
He came to us as a baby and Savior, He comes to us now, He is coming again, and He calls us to come to Him in the midst of it all!
