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Advent: To Come
The British website Unilad got us all thinking about trimming the tree a few weeks early.
In 2017, it reported that people who decorate earlier are simply tapping into the excitement of the holidays before the rest of us — which makes them happier.
“For a lot of us, Christmas is a magical time, it’s a time of innocence, it’s a time of joy,” Serani said.
There's another possible benefit to decorating early, though: The neighbors might think you're friendlier!
Research has shown that people interpret Christmas decorations on a home as a cue that the people inside are sociable.
An article from 3 weeks ago...
If you already started decorating for Christmas, consider yourself a happy and friendly person.
Psychologists say Christmas decorations are nostalgic and bring people back to simpler and happier times.
They say it also helps boost dopamine.
So if you’re feeling like a grinch this season, consider putting up your Christmas tree early.
Yesterday we were throwing up Christmas trees at our house.
Bring on the Christmas Joy and Spirit.
We finished putting up trees on the inside and I went outside and started putting up lights.
We are happy people and we are decorating for Christmas!
What happens to those early decorators after the big day(Christmas) is over?
Some Call it Post Holiday Syndrome
It’s not that unusual.
Some studies show as many as 25 percent of Americans suffer from low-grade to full-blown depression after the holidays.
The hype and excitement and, yes, expectation, for jolliness buoy up many in the buildup to the Big Day.
But then expectations hit reality.
Relatives aren’t always kind.
Gifts aren’t given and received in the spirit intended.
The fantasy that maybe this year will be different is dashed yet again.
It’s hard for even the most resilient not to feel a letdown.
For those who are prone to depression anyway, the weeks after a holiday can feel like the emotional rug has been pulled out from them.
If you don’t decorate early you get the term that you are a grinch but if you do decorate early and get sad after it’s gone you have a syndrome.
Advent: To come
There is this intentional build up before Christmas.
700 years before Jesus comes the Prophet Isaiah tells of Jesus coming.
During the month of December, our family has some advent traditions that we do.
This one was lost and I couldn’t find but Colten told me yesterday that it was in the attic and I searched hard for it last year and could not find it.
Colten found it yesterday and I am super excited.
Here is what this one is...
So this book helps us build up to Christmas eve and Christmas day when we celebrate the birth of our Lord.
One of the key pieces of Advent: the coming of our Lord that I have overlooked is that it is not just a celebration of what had taken place but it is also a celebration of what is to come.
Zephaniah 3
We celebrate what has happened, that is, Jesus came.
Jesus was born of a virgin, He was Immanuel (God with us), He died on the cross and Jesus rose again.
All of this is in the past.
We build up to Christmas to celebrate what has happened.
We are not waiting for Jesus be born again.
We are celebrating that he has been born.
We however longing for Advent.
That is we are longing for Jesus to come again.
So a part of this advent season is not only celebrating what has already happened but it is also a looking forward to Jesus coming again.
Conclusion:
Whatever the cause, Christmas never seems to live up to the build up.
Why is that?
I am convinced that the enemy wants us to only look back at the events of Christmas past and not look ahead to Christ coming again.
The enemy wants us to stay in a Genesis 3 world where death is present, pain is evident, and suffering happens.
Christ is refining us today through his death and resurrection in the here and now but we long for the second advent.
We long for Christ to come again.
We long that there is no temple there in Revelation because The Lord is present with His people and no temple is needed.
We long for no shame, punishment is dealt with through the blood shed of Jesus Christ.
Yes.
No more oppression.
Oppression is losing its power.
The lame rescued.
Disease losing its power.
The exiles will be gathered.
Brothers and sisters, we are aliens, strangers, exiles in this world.
Yet Christ, the great rescuer, the great redeemer, gathers.
We have been brought home now.
We sit in that, and we rejoice in that while looking for the second coming, pleading for the second advent.
This is why John ends the book of Revelation with “Come, Lord Jesus.
Maranatha.”
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