Change is hard and not easy to come by. Most often we go about change by reinventing ourselves or not thinking about change at all. But God is not interested in reinventing you or keeping you the same. He wants to remake you from the inside out.

In this passage, Isaiah prophesies to Ahaz about a virgin and a coming king. Ahaz refused to trust God and Isaiah prophesied a sign of God coming to dwell with his people.

Jesus is the God that doesn't meet our expectations, but he is doing so much more. The season of Advent addresses our expectations of Jesus and reconnects us with how God moves in our lives.

Advent reminds us of our poverty. Our spiritual condition is one that is bankrupt before God and we are helpless except for his kindness and generosity towards us. The Advent Season is the reminder that our God is generous beyond measure, he sent us a King that would take on flesh and rescue his people. Yet, we often continue to live in the poverty of our own autonomy, instead of submitting our lives to our King.

Advent is when we prepare for the coming of the Lord. It’s a season where the Church recognizes the world is not what it should be and we long for a Savior to come and make all things new. The certainty of the first coming allows us to look forward in hope to the second coming of Christ. In Advent, we cry, “Come quickly, Lord Jesus!”