The forgotten Christmas

Advent

Expectations of the advent. Centuries of waiting until finally happen

The busyness of the season makes it challenging to stop and remember the significance

But even worse, we forget that He promised to come back. A second Christmas.

It’s been so long that we even wonder

Did God Forget too?

Humans tend to forget important events like anniversaries or birthdays.

2 Peter 3:8–9 NET

Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day. The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some regard slowness, but is being patient toward you, because he does not wish for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

He has not.

Surely He is waiting for us.

Our attitude towards His second coming is going to affect how we live today

If you have 1M dollars to invest. Wouldn’t you work diligently to find the best ways to put your money to work?

Some are Investing it all in a bankrupted World

2 Peter 3:10–13 NET

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; when it comes, the heavens will disappear with a horrific noise, and the celestial bodies will melt away in a blaze, and the earth and every deed done on it will be laid bare.Since all these things are to melt away in this manner, what sort of people must we be, conducting our lives in holiness and godliness,while waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God? Because of this day, the heavens will be burned up and dissolve, and the celestial bodies will melt away in a blaze!But, according to his promise, we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness truly resides.

This world doesn't have what it takes to bring everlasting justice. God needs to Create a new heaven and a new earth.

Where is God in your life right now? What dominates your thoughts?

It is said that love covers multitude of sins. And love is the fulfillment of the law of God. But Love without somewhere to put it, it can be misused and wasted. That’s why we need...

The Mother of all Virtues

The Lexham English Bible Chapter 3

what sort of people must you be in holy behavior and godliness

It takes work to create a healthy lifestyle.

The Lexham English Bible Chapter 4

train yourself for godliness

The Lexham English Bible Chapter 4

godliness is profitable for everything, because it* holds promise for the present life and for the life to come.

2 Peter 1:3–4 NET

I can pray this because his divine power has bestowed on us everything necessary for life and godliness through the rich knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence. Through these things he has bestowed on us his precious and most magnificent promises, so that by means of what was promised you may become partakers of the divine nature, after escaping the worldly corruption that is produced by evil desire.

Godliness is true religion that places God as number one in live, in our thoughts and in our purposes.

Its power comes from God while we pursue Him. And it will affect how we love others.

The forgotten Christmas then is that Jesus will be back on earth soon but also that He has made available for us the power of Godliness by what we can change ourselves and our community until the day He comes back.