Carriers Of Hope

Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name.  Psalm 100:4 NASB

What are you looking forward to receiving for Christmas?

The child inside each of us is eagerly waiting for presents under the tree. The child in each of us is looking forward to ripping the wrapping paper to see what it was hiding.

However, these recent weeks leading up to Christmas will possibly be noted as testing our patience, pulling our faith, subdoing our hope. especially if we allow our gaze to fall away from Jesus and onto our circumstances.

a remedy for this season, and every season, is reading the Bible. Today why don't you read the Book of Luke, remember the same way we are eagerly waiting for Jesus to return. Advent is the time when we wait patiently yet expectant for the Lord to return, just as Israel waited patiently for Jesus to come the first time as the child of Bethlehem. Jesus is revealed to us, and He will return.

How in the world can we wait patiently for the gift of eternal life in the new heavens and Earth? We do not lack anything as we wait. God gave us the gift of mercy because there are things He wants us to do as we wait patiently for the Lord to return. God wants us to be grace as He is grace. His conpassion bought us time to spread the good news of forgiveness and life in Christ! We get to be thankful for the gift of Jesus Christ! We get to be doers of God's word, and we must! It is a great commission of God to share Jesus Christ within our household as and throughout our communities! If we don't there will be people who might never have heard the good news for themselves. 

Make use of this time of waiting to tell a family member, a neighbor, or someone you work with that Jesus is the Saviour of the world.

Holy Spirit offers us the gift of discernment to see opportunities to bring more people into His kingdom. God does not take pleasure in the death of the wicked. He wants all people to come to the knowledge of the truth and be saved. We are carriers of the truth until Jesus returns.