Number 8

Number Eight

           

Last July I was “sitting on pins and needles” as the old adage goes, waiting to receive word from our son that their baby girl was on her way to join our family.  Every day I awoke, cell phone beside our bed, and wondered if this was the day our granddaughter would arrive. With her due date in the past tense, each text message or call increased my heart rate.

As I thought of this great anticipation of new life, I sadly realized that we believers in Jesus Christ should be living with this same expectancy. Unfortunately, the majority of us (including me) don’t.  We are sidetracked by life and its every day challenges and commitments. We are preoccupied with our own selfish situations and events. Sorry to say, some of us have let His return slip from our minds completely.

But what if we didn’t forget?  What if daily, we would awake, anticipating His arrival just as I had awaited our granddaughter’s birth?   What if now, with the beginning of Advent, we would take the time not only to reflect upon His birth but on His glorious return as well?   I wonder.

“Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your LORD is coming.”  Matthew 24:42

NOTE: Our little Evalyn Rose joined us July 14!