Lord Christ, we confess our willingness to be loved but also our reluctance to love. We confess our readiness to accept Your forgiving love but also our refusal to forgive. We confess our eagerness to grasp Your offer of redeeming love but also our resistance to follow You without question. In this Advent time, forgive us our failure to respond as we should. Come to us anew, and by Your grace, assist us to receive You with joy,
as the shepherds;
with gratitude, as Simeon;
with obedience, as Mary;
with love, as You have loved us.
Even so: come, Lord Jesus. Amen.
[From the Worship Sourcebook]
If our weary world rejoices at the coming of the Savior, how much more our wearied hearts? I wrote this devotional not to forget the sorrow and suffering of our world in this Advent season, but to carry them to the Man of Sorrows, the One acquainted with grief - our Suffering Servant King. In His first Advent, He bore our sin, in His second Advent He will wipe every tear. Rejoice, O weary heart, rejoice.
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