Advent allows us to recover during this four-week journey. It begins four Sundays before Christmas all the way up to Christmas. It lets us breath in those moments of faithfulness and helps us recognize that God is working.

The Word of God isn't for one particular season. It's for every season. But in its specific application, it's best read from Thanksgiving to Christmas.

We go from Malachi to Matthew in one page of our scriptures, but that one piece of paper that separates the Old Testament from the New Testament represents 400 years of history - 400 years where there wasn't a prophet, 400 years where God's voice wasn't heard. And that silence was broken with the cry of a baby on Christmas night.

God isn't waiting on our memo. He is waiting on us to focus enough on Him that we get His memo.

God never seems to work at the speed that we want Him to.

It's not the elements of our worship that are awesome. It's the object of our worship Who is awesome.

Who knows who's waiting right now for one of us to invite them into God's family?