category: Advent 2024 Advent Devotion: Day 8 By Gardner-Webb University On December 8, 2024 Sunday, December 10 Malachi 3:1-4; Philippians 1:3-11; Luke 3:1-6 Most likely you have experienced a phone call from someone saying, “I’m on my way to your house.” Immediately, after ending the call, you rush to the closet, grab a broom, vacuum, trash bags, and whatever else is needed to ensure that your house is prepared to receive company. This is the meaning of Advent, preparing our hearts to receive our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ, because He’s on the way! However, you will not be responsible for the cleaning and “fixing” things up; our Lord and Savior will take care of that responsibility. That’s right! Our Lord and Savior will be like the strongest cleansing agent in the laundry machine, a cleanser of dirty clothes, scrubbing every stain and brushing every blemish until the fabric of our hearts is refined like gold and silver, fit and pleasing to God. The only thing you need to do is open the door to your heart and let Him in because He’s on the way! Our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ, is not only coming to cleanse our heart to make it fit and pleasing to God, but He is coming to remove the old furniture, the old way of living and establish a new and right way of living through His work of salvation, a work that requires our cooperation, but a work that only God begins and will bring to full completion. Until we cease to have breath in our mortal bodies, the Lord will provide grace so that we will be prepared for the Lord’s Advent, “the day” of Christ Jesus. He’s on the way! So, the prayer written by the Apostle Paul, almost 2000 years ago, is still relevant today: “That your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight to help you to determine what really matters, so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.” Prepare your heart, He’s on the way! Rev. Dr. M. Lamont Littlejohn Jr.Servant Pastor/Teacher, Mt. Calvary Baptist Church
Post 2024 Advent Devotion: Day 25 Wednesday, December 25 Psalm 98; Isaiah 52:7-10; Hebrews 1:1-4, (5-12); John 1:1-14 Thanks be to God, for the blessed day of Jesus’ birth has arrived! Merry Christmas, Gardner-Webb family. I hope that this season of Advent has been filled with wonder, joy, and hope for you and for your loved ones. I trust that in reading […] Gardner-Webb University | December 25, 2024
Post 2024 Advent Devotion: Day 24 Tuesday, December 24 Psalm 96; Isaiah 9:2-7; Titus 2:11-14; Luke 2:1-14; (15-20) The Christmas season is a time for our souls to find rhythm again. Specifically, this time of year tunes our hearts to the rhythm of grace around us. During this season we look back and we look ahead, and our hearts and minds awaken […] Gardner-Webb University | December 24, 2024
Post 2024 Advent Devotion: Day 23 Monday, December 23 Psalm 113; Genesis 25:19-28; Colossians 1:15-20 “Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King!” Three Dog Night sang a similar song: “Joy to the world, All the boys and girls, Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea, Joy to you and me.” While this song is […] Gardner-Webb University | December 23, 2024
