Advent Resolve

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After Christmas I always say, “next year it’ll be different! Cards, gifts, all the preparations will be done earlier so I can spend Advent preparing myself spiritually.” But it never goes to plan; there’s always so much to do and time passes so quickly. All these extra tasks we impose on ourselves can eat up our time. The shopping, the decorating, fancy dress, and where on earth do I get a donkey for the nativity from?!

In our reading today, Micah draws us back to God, to all that He has done for His people and to the way He longs for us to live. He warns that empty rituals are not enough and then he says this (v.8):

‘He has told you, O mortal, what is good, and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God?’

These beautiful words offer hope to people who have wandered away from God. They reach out and they call us back to Him. God doesn’t just want sacrifices and offerings; He wants our hearts. The God of the universe wants to be close to us, to walk with us day by day—how amazing is that! And we find that as we stay close to Him, our hearts begin to desire what He requires, to do what’s right and to love mercy. 

This Advent do you want to draw closer to Him? Resolve to walk humbly with Him as He, in Jesus, walked humbly with us.