As we prepare our house form the coming Christmas season, we would also prepare our hearts for the returning Christ. You came once for your people, O Lord, and you will come for us again.
Douglas McKelvey — Every Moment Holy
Oh my God and King.
You sent your One and only to a world that was rotting, yet was one that still bore your image. You still do.
He still saves.
He still finds that which was lost.
He is still elder-brothering the wayward in us all.
Making Room in Your Heart
As a believer in Christ, His throne is the center of my heart, and yet my old man continually fights for attention. These skirmishes in no way diminish His Lordship and right position in my heart, but an honest confession always leads to this conclusion in my prayers — there are still enemy strongholds in the land of the living.
So my prayer for you and I this Advent season — of preparing our hearts to celebrate the One who has welcomed us all with open arms into his Father’s house — is that in this life, in our hearts, and in our homes we would “prepare him room” where we…
