Hurry up and wait. During this season, we tend to do a lot of hurrying up, and we hate waiting. But the whole Advent season is about waiting, waiting because our Savior has not yet come. The response for the Psalm for today says, "Blessed are all who wait for the Lord." The Advent season reminds us that, despite the current explosion of all things Christmas in the world around us, we are still waiting for Christ to be born, we are still waiting for our Savior to come and set us free.
Every time we hear on the news of the latest tragedy, disaster, shooting, act of hatred, abuse, etc., it should be manifestly obvious that we live in a world that is in need of a Savior. Something should well up in our hearts in these moments that makes us want to cry out and say, "Yes, come Lord Jesus! Come, and save this world!" That is is the very heart of this season. The more we anticipate and prepare for an event, the more we get out of it. Children intuitively understand this about Christmas. It's precisely the waiting for the day and for the presents to arrive that adds to the excitement and celebration of the day itself.
In the same way, we are still waiting for Christ. We wait now so that we can embrace Him with all the more joy, as the greatest gift of all, on Christmas Day and the days after Christmas. The best way to prepare for Christmas is to develop in your heart a sense of waiting. With every sadness in your life or in the world around you, let your heart yearn for God to come and make things right. Jesus wants to come to you in a major way this Christmas. Bring to Him the ache in your heart and ask Him to come there this Christmas. Then all you have to do is wait.
Pax Vobiscum
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