I am sitting here tonight getting ready for the start of the NFL season. The anticipation of this coming season has been ridiculous. They have been talking this season since April and the rookie draft. They have been doing team synopsis since the end of July and training camp. Predication and season analysis have been going on for over a week now. And to top off the anticipation, they have had a 60 min pregame show talking mostly about the 2 teams playing tonight. There has been commercials and adds for this coming football season. I think direct tv has had a commercial ever other time and please, do not even get me started on the internet craze when it comes to the new season. This anticipation got me thinking about some other anticipations.
The first anticipation I thought about was the birth of Jesus. Was anyone anticipating the Savior to come in the form of a baby in a manger? Was Mary and Joseph anticipating their new born Son to take away the sin of the world? Where the shepherds asleep in the desert really ready for God in the flesh to make an appearance that night? I find when I pour over the Bible only 2 people were anticipating the first coming of Jesus and they were ready for Him (read Luke 2:22-38).
The second anticipation I think about then is the second coming of Jesus. This time we know Jesus is coming. The Bible says so every few prophecies and now even our times are telling us that Jesus is coming back soon. This is an anticipation that I think we do not get ready for enough. Do our lives tell others that we are anticipating the return of Jesus? Does our mouth and words tell others that we are anticipating the return of Jesus? I know from my life, more times than not I am satisfied with this life and the anticipation I need for the return of Jesus is not good. But this is not what Paul and Peter were calling us to be like. Paul thought he was living in the end times and was anticipating the return of Jesus. We are 2000 years later and I find our anticipation in the church has waned and we have become comfortable.
What are you anticipating?
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