A Prayer For Anticipation

Father, as the holidays approach we are given so much opportunity to celebrate Your goodness and abundant blessings in settings where we can overflow with thanksgiving. At the top of our list of Thanksgiving blessings is the plan You had in clothing Your Son, Jesus, in the flesh and sending Him to earth, to live among the common folks, healing, cleansing, forgiving, instructing, and giving His life as a ransom for many. We are eternally grateful for His first coming and so eagerly anticipate Christ’s second coming that the angels spoke of to the Apostles when Christ ascended into heaven at the completion of His mortal ministry, “This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven”. We are looking up! Amen.