O Come, O come, Emmanuel

O Come, O come, Emmanuel

            As I mentioned before, during Advent, look forward to celebrating God sending His son to this earth.  Although we so not know with specificity the exact day of Christ’s birth, we can still worship him on the 25^th of December. Likewise we have no idea when the trump shall sound in celebration and announcement of Christ’s second coming, but we can still look forward in eager anticipation to the coming of Christ’s kingdom when he returns for those who love and serve Him.  With this in mind we can sing the Advent hymn “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” with great joy, meaning and understanding.

`           The Christian knows that the thought of Christ’s return to the earth is by no means “pie in the sky” but rather a “lively hope”.  1Peter 1:3 explains what Christian’s mean by the term “lively hope”, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”  Christianity offers this hope since we serve a God who is alive rather than a god “who was” and now is not alive.  Because Christ is alive, we have a right to worship Him with great joy and anticipation during this Advent season.