Our Hearts Are Restless

"Now you have every spiritual gift you need as you eagerly wait for the return of our Lord Jesus Christ".

—1 Corinthians 1.7 (NLT)

"Everlasting God,

in whom we live and move and have our being:

You have made us for Yourself,

so that our hearts are restless

until they rest in you."

—Augustine of Hippo (Algeria/ 354-430)

As we celebrate Jesus' first advent, let us eagerly await His second coming/His next Advent. May we this Christmas season keep our eyes and our hearts desire on Jesus alone!

(Scripture and quote from the Mosaic: Holy Bible.)

Meditation on Jesus

"The more you know about Christ, the less will you be satisfied with superficial views of Him; and the more deeply you study His transactions in the eternal covenant, His engagements on your behalf as the eternal security, and the fullness of His grace that shines in all His offices, the more truly will you see the King in His beauty. Learn to look at Him this way. Long increasingly to see Jesus. Meditation and contemplation are often like windows of gold and gates of silver through which we behold the Redeemer. Meditation puts the telescope to the eye and enables us to see Jesus in a better fashion than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His earthly sojourn. Our conversation ought to be more in heaven, and we should be more taken up with the person, the work, the beauty of our incarnate Lord."

—Charles Spurgeon

God Sightings (in our daily life) which Corroborate God’s Character as Revealed Scripture

Regarding hessed in Isaiah 63.7-11—"He is a God of unfailing kindness, grace, mercy, and love. Circumstances may change; our rebellions may even make Him our enemy. But the hessed of God never changes; and when we recount all that God has done in our experience, it will end up in praise for who He is. The emphasis on memory, both here and again in vs. 11, is at the heart of biblical faith. Because God had chosen to reveal Himself in the context of human experience and because He had shown Himself to be utterly consistent, the primary way to come to know Him was through reflecting on what He had said and done in the context of that experience."

—John Oswalt

Now, we have a record of that experience as Scripture. Still, God reveals Himself in the manifestations of His character into our experiences and those 'God sightings' correspond to the revealed truth of Scripture!