ADVENT: DAY 10

this past week has been a journey through the beginning of the advent season. having never practiced advent before (which is nuts to me since i've been a christian for 10+ years), there was no better time than this. this season is full of unknowns, uncertainties, newness...the stability of the Savior is definitely what i've been longing for, craving, yearning. i am on day 10 of advent, and it has been such a joy to journey through ann voskamp's advent devotional, the greatest gift: unwrapping the full love story of christmas. and what a love story this has been. a story about a magnificent, glorious, perfect God and the sinner desperately fighting through this life, searching for a way through, needing a rescuer. 

day 10 walks us through the story of moses and the gifting of the ten commandments to the israelites. 

main points from today's reading:

“the ten commandments are a command to relationship. to love vertically, to love horizontally, to love relationship—and it’s not a suggestion.”

“Jesus, the Love who seven days later went to the Cross to fulfill the unfulfilled, to pay the price for our broken love like we never could, to love God for His unbroken love like we never have.”

“Jesus, the Love who hangs on a tree, who cries out our yes to the covenant: ‘My God, My God.’ yes, you are mine. I am Yours. yes, you are the Lord my God. Jesus, the Love who doesn’t just die the death we deserved to die; He lives the love we’ve desired to live.”

“God knows we wander, and he woos again and again.” praise Him for this truth.

what a beautiful picture of Calvary love, and how Jesus fulfills us, the unfulfilled, and loves us, the unlovable. how i hope and pray to live the love of my sweet Jesus.