The Advent Season has begun and, once again, I hope to share excerpts from one of Desiring God's Advent Devotionals, "The Dawning of Indestructible Joy." It seems a somewhat fitting choice to help me fight for Joy this season. I hope and pray it is useful to you.
Dec 1, 2016
The coming of Jesus was a search-and-save mission. “The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
So Advent is a season for thinking about the mission of God to seek and to save lost people from the wrath to come. God raised him from the dead, “Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come” (1 Thess. 1:10). It’s a season for cherishing and worshiping this characteristic of God—that he is a searching and saving God, that he is a God on a mission, that he is not aloof or passive or indecisive. He is never in the maintenance mode, coasting or drifting. He is sending, pursuing, searching, saving. That’s the meaning of Advent.
<a href="http://sovereigngracemusic.bandcamp.com/album/prepare-him-room-celebrating-the-birth-of-jesus-in-song" data-mce-fragment="1" data-mce-href="http://sovereigngracemusic.bandcamp.com/album/prepare-him-room-celebrating-the-birth-of-jesus-in-song">Prepare Him Room: Celebrating the Birth of Jesus in Song by Sovereign Grace Music</a>
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