Advent 2 Saturday – All I Want For Christmas

Advent 2 Saturday – All I Want

One of my favourite Youtube Christmas videos is an old one of a little girl singing about what she wants for Christmas,  …. 

The words of that song give us an opportunity today to reflect on what gift we think would bring us fulfillment on Christmas morning. 

The truth is, we experience fulfillment only when God’s desires become our desires.  How does this happen? 

Our desires start to change when we give our will and our life over to the care of God.

Through Jesus our relationship with God is restored and we are made righteous and acceptable in God’s sight. 

As we follow God’s will for us, the power of His Holy Spirit changes us from the inside out and we grow to be more like Jesus in all our ways.

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

2 Corinthians 5:21

In this Advent season God invites us to wholeheartedly desire to do His will in every area of our lives.

As we make this fundamental shift in our thinking and behaving, we will experience the kind of satisfaction Jesus spoke about when He said,

“My food, is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.” 

John 4:34

Heavenly Father, Our desire is to do Your will and to walk in Your ways.  Please strengthen us by the power of Your Holy Spirit to do what pleases You. 

Help us to be people who not only say we trust Your input and guidance for our lives, but who actually put that wisdom into practice in all our affairs.

Give us eyes to see and ears to hear Your voice.  Give us willing hearts to follow wise counsel from Your word and from others who faithfully follow You. 

We long for this Advent and Christmas season of 2022 to be the most fulfilling one yet. 

All we want for Christmas this year is to know You and to fulfill the purpose for which we were born and which Your birth on Christmas Day more than 2000 years ago makes available to us.  Amen