Advent Day 2 - Prepare Him Room

If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world. -- C.S. Lewis

What are you hoping for this Christmas? I'm guessing that your greatest longings cannot be purchased at the mall. But we can buy a lot of distractions can't we? Things to keep our minds and hearts occupied and distracted from the hard things of life as well as eternal realities. Things that dull our affections for the things of God. I'm guessing that we are more distracted than any generation that came before us. We have smart phones, tablets, big screen televisions in 4K, and enough content to amuse ourselves to death several times over.

John 4:13–14 (NKJV) — 13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

That longing is a gift. We would do well to consider those deepest longings and what they point to. We would do well to remove the distractions and prepare our hearts to see afresh the staggering truth claims proclaimed in Scripture about the person and work of Christ.

If there is a longing in your heart this Advent for something that the world has not been able to satisfy, might not this longing be God’s Christmas gift preparing you to see Christ as consolation and redemption and to receive him for who he really is?1

1Piper, John. The Dawning of Indestructible Joy (p. 17). Crossway. Kindle Edition.