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Proverbs chapter 13 verse 12 hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

What an awesome, glorious Advent verse.

As we prepare to celebrate the coming of Jesus at Christmas

just to think about the longing for Jesus in human history, the longing

for one who would save us from our sins, the longing for one who would give us eternal life reconcile us to God.

So to read Proverbs 1312 about how hope deferred makes the heart sick.

Like to hope and wait and wait and wait

net hope to be deferred.

But then the beauty, the joy, the exhilaration that happens when a desire is fulfilled, like a tree of life. And this is the good news of Christmas,

that the hope of God is here, that all our desires for peace and joy that supersede the suffering and

circumstances of this world that those desires have been fulfilled in Jesus, that God has come to save us from our sins, that God has come

to satisfy our souls, to restore us to a relationship with him.

We are not waiting anymore for Jesus to come.

He has come.

And he has fulfilled our desires.

Therefore our hearts are not sick.

Instead, we are like trees of life.

We live today in Jesus.

We live tomorrow in Jesus, No matter what happens to us, we have life

and peace and hope and security in Jesus. Oh God, we praise you, we praise you for the hope we have found in Jesus, the hope we have right now in Jesus.

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