Advent Thoughts | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 9, 1872

Advent Thoughts.

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will toward men.”

“Whatsoever things were written aforetime, were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.”

THE word advent is itself calculated to awaken thought and kindle expectation. It summons me to watch and prepare for One who is coming; it says, “Awake, thou that sleepest, and Christ shall give thee light.” It calls upon me to make ready my heart to receive with joyful welcome Him who bringeth salvation; and if I fully realized my fallen, lost condition by nature, should I not rejoice with joy unspeakable in the belief that there is One who is able to save to the uttermost those who come to him?

While bearing, then, in my heart this precious truth, all through the days and months of the year, as the “chief corner-stone” of my hope, let me endeavor to remember the subject of the advent with peculiar reverence and joy. Let me meditate more upon that wondrous love which brought the Son of God down from Heaven to this sinning, suffering, lost world; and let me remember that if I fail to profit by the blessings of the first advent, that there is another, when his coming shall be in “glorious majesty to judge both the quick and dead.”

Almighty God, give us grace, that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armor of light now, in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility—that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty, to judge both the quick and dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through Him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever! Amen.—Churchman.