Tomorrow, we’ll wake up with our family of four in our home together on Christmas morning. We’ll exchange gifts, read the Christmas story and make memories I hope to cherish for a lifetime.
The Christmas season is hectic and busy and sometimes leaves me feeling guilty for wishing it were all over with. I realize my heart is never quite ready for Christmas. I was comforted by that reality as I was reading an Advent devotional by Ann Voskamp called The Greatest Gift. In it was this quote:
“We are most prepared for Christ, for Christmas when we confess we are mostly not prepared”
The gifts might be wrapped and the cookies baked. However, my heart needs a Savior to move and reign. I need grace. Only when I recognize my need for Jesus am I prepared for His arrival.
Only when I recognize my need for Jesus am I prepared for His arrival.”
As you visit family, go to work, open gifts or order a pizza tomorrow, I encourage you to stop for just a moment to acknowledge your need. The coming Jesus is not only neat but so necessary.
The coming Jesus is not only neat but so necessary.”
From my heart to yours, Merry Christmas! May you experience the coming King.
4 comments on “The Lead-Up Led Us Here”
Do you have The Greatest Gift book or Family Devotional? I love Ann Voskamp and have been considering her family book for future Christmas’s but I haven’t heard much about it. What do you think?
I’m using the book…I don’t have the family devo. I have heard the family devo is fantastic.
Bobby Ann, I heard this song last year, and fell in love with it wanted to share it with you, sang it yesterday for the assisted living homes. The words are so precious — hope you enjoy
Sandy
In search of a child they travel so far
Led by a star to a place of joy
Now the wise men tell a beautiful story
Describing the glory of a baby boy
Hope has hands
Freedom has feet
Truth will stand
The word will speak
The holy and lowly will finally embrace
For love has a heartbeat
And grace has a face
Compassion has a tear
Joy has a laughter
And here ever after peace has a smile
Redemption’s blood has veins to flow in
A temple to glow in
Light is a child
Hope has hands
Freedom has feet
Truth will stand
The word will speak
The holy and lowly will finally embrace
For love has a heartbeat
And grace has a face
I love that song…what a great picture.