Here's Nancy De Mas, Walgamuth.

We're waiting and longing to be free from sin, aren't you?

To not be plagued with temptation and with human weakness and frailty.

We're waiting and longing to be free from this fallen messed up world.

To be free from our flesh, from the suffering in this world that's brought about by sin.

None of that was God's plan.

And God is going to deliver us from all of that

in his time and in the meantime, we wait and we long. This is the Reviver Hearts Podcast with Nancy Damas Walgamuth, author of Surrender, the Heart God Controls. For December 15th, 2022, I'm Danagresh.

Waiting,

waiting, it was waiting,

it was hard when you were a child, and it's still hard now.

Even though you might express your impatience in more subtle ways than you did when you were a child.

The Christmas story is all about the incredible

moment when waiting came to an end. Here's Nancy to explain in a series called

My Eyes Have seen your salvation.

We've been looking in this series that part of the Christmas story that we don't always focus

on at Christmas.

It took place shortly after the birth of Christ when Mary and Joseph, according to the law of God, took the baby

Jesus when he was 40 days old, took him to the temple where they went through two rights. Mary went through a purification that was

required for a mother of a newborn son and offered a sacrifice as God

required and then she dedicated her son, Jesus, to God.

Just an amazing picture there, thinking about Jesus being dedicated to God,

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