Our longings, our desires, our waiting, our prayers are all meant to take our hearts deeper into the realities of the coming of Christ.
Learning to live by the indwelling life of Christ.
Our longings, our desires, our waiting, our prayers are all meant to take our hearts deeper into the realities of the coming of Christ.
Receiving Christ as both your Savior and your Judge means receiving the advent of his life into yours. The power of an everlasting guilt free life. A life of no condemnation. A life of shining like the brightness of the sky above.
For us, the advent of Christ into our hearts has united his fire proof life to ours. His invincible life is now our hope.
This is the good news of advent – in Christ we have been invited as the neighbors of Jesus to come under his vine and under his fig tree.
So do not lose heart in your waiting. In Christmas, God has returned with mercy to his people. In Christmas, God has made his home with his people. And in Christ, God has promised to return again with prosperity for his people.
Thank God that the advent of evil was met with the advent of God himself into our lives. Our ultimate Good destroying the ultimate evil.