Revelation 3:7 “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.
8 “‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. 9 Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will learn that I have loved you. 10 Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.11 I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown. 12 The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name. 13 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’
Advent: Celebrating Christ's Coming, is not just looking back, or to the present, but to His coming again. When He left, that's what He promised. Just as His first coming kept God's promise, His coming again is something we anticipate. The Call is to be ready when He opens the door. Being ready requires patient endurance, faithful obedience, unwavering trust - the same characteristics we saw in the lives of Simeon and Anna. We wait for Him to make all things new: a New Jerusalem, a new name, a new life to walk into. He will write His name on all that is, because it belongs to Him. So, in preparation for that, we are to allow Him to write His name on us, acknowledging we are His, and that no one can seize us, or our crown, from His almighty hand. Come, Lord Jesus, Come.
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