Monday - 2nd in Advent

My heart, O God, is steadfast; I will and make music with all my soul. Awake, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn. I will praise you, Lord, among the nations;

I will sing of you among the peoples. For great is your love, higher than the heavens ; your faithfulness reaches to the skies. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth. 

Save us and help us with your right hand, that those you love may be delivered 

(Psalm 108: 1-6).

The psalmist is so wanting to praise God that they are prepared to arise before it is light, before the dawn has taken over from the dark of the night. By the time it gets to this time of year, that is not so hard as it is still dark when most of us get up. But the point is that the worship of the Lord is so crucial, so needed, so essential for the day that the getting up part is not even worth thinking about. Everyone awake! Look! I will praise you, Lord, among the nations for it was to the nations that you came. The Lord Jesus, came into the world as a tiny baby, just as we do. God so loved the world that God put on skin and walked among us.

Jesus Christ came into the world to set his people free, to be set free from the bondage of sin, of despair, of destruction, and of decay.

The gospel writer John, records Jesus' words to Nicodemus:

 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him...light has come into the world."
(John 3:16-17)

This is for us - for all of us, for every human being who has ever walked this earth, who has been born into this created world that was a gift from the Creator. Great is your love, Lord. So great that you came so quietly, so unexpectedly, You had prepared the way for Your coming but so many missed it. So many missed the event that was to change the world. We were not ready but You had already done all the preparation by declaring the news through Your prophets, speaking of the event over and over, promising that there would be a day when the true light would come to the world that You have created but the coming would be do different from our expectations we were not prepared. Yet still You allow us to come as we are.

Save us and help us....help us see You for who You are. No longer a tiny helpless baby, but a great and glorious King who is coming again to reign. 

Come, Lord Jesus....