One of the best parts of the Christmas season is the looking forward with anticipation to something. The kids make chains and remove a link each day as Christmas approaches. Our wall slowly fills with Christmas cards from people we love. We the Christmas narrative over and over. There is so much forward looking. Then Christmas is over and the forward looking ceases.
But we have something even better to look forward to than celebrating Jesus' first coming. Jesus is coming back! For two millennium that is what the Christians have longed for and looked for. I get so focused on the here and now: the dishes, diapers, dirt. I forget about the glorious future and the Second Coming of Jesus.
This life is often full of pain and failure and disappointment but in Christ we have a perfect future coming. I can put all this beauty away until next year's advent season and still live with such anticipation. Jesus said, "Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also." John 14:1-2
Jesus is coming again! Jesus is coming again! I can live continually with that joyful anticipation.
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