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Tuesday, Dec 8 - O Come Let Us Adore Him<br />
Yesterday, as I was working in the kitchen and listening to a<br />
little Christmas music playing in the background, I began<br />
singing along to an old Christmas-favorite, "Oh, come let us<br />
adore Him! Oh, come let us adore Him! Oh, come let us<br />
adore Him! Christ...the Lord!"<br />
Advent - a season to focus on adoration of our Savior and<br />
Lord... So, I refreshed my memory on just what it means to<br />
"adore" someone. I'll refresh your memory, too. It means "to<br />
love intensely, to worship, speak words of admiration and<br />
reverence; to regard with feelings of respect and reverence;<br />
to consider as hallowed or exalted (I can't credit any one<br />
resource as this is a combination of Hebrew, Greek, and the<br />
WordBook Dictionary App)." It was the words I italicized<br />
above that struck my heart - to speak, out loud, words of<br />
adoration. The realization hit that I seldom do just that... I<br />
have gotten in the habit of being thankful; but that's not<br />
adoration. Adoration involves character - WHO YOU ARE.<br />
Adoration means I tell you just what I love about you. It's not<br />
what I love about what you do FOR ME, but who you are TO ME! That's a big difference. It<br />
seems lately, that there's been this big push on gratitude (and rightly so, we do tend to be an<br />
ungrateful people); but, so maybe with so much focus, perhaps we've forgotten adoration.<br />
I read this statement a couple of years ago in a book on marriage, and it stuck: "We can't love<br />
someone intimately, when we are always thinking about them, or talking about them,<br />
negatively." ** Not only is this true in marriage, it's true in all relationships, especially our<br />
relationship with <strong>Jesus</strong>. Remembering to speak words of adoration will always lead us to<br />
deeper intimacy! And, I long for the delights that come with exploring the depths of my<br />
relationship with my Savior!<br />
So, as I sang out those words, "Oh, come let us adore Him," there was a quiet Spirit-whisper of<br />
invitation - "Come..." I did. In the midst of a meal preparation, I stopped and sat at my table, and<br />
began to work on an activity I learned years ago in Mom's In Touch: write a list about who God<br />
is for every letter of the alphabet. And, I began to speak it aloud, looking heavenward. Gotta<br />
admit, it felt awkward. That just speaks to how foreign adoration has become. Oh, that it may<br />
not be just a random, Advent event. May this become the spirit of my soul, to long to come,<br />
often, and adore Him...Christ the Lord!<br />
This morning, take a few moments and just let him know what you love about him; and, then<br />
maybe tell someone else…<br />
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