Think-On Jesus

The season of Advent may have slipped up on you! News flash - it comes the same time each year. Advent - a time when Believers pare to center their hearts on the first coming of Jesus to earth as Savior. That time is now, four weeks before Christmas! How do we find that Christ-centered focus amid the many distracting sights and sounds, tastes and aromas, gatherings and festivities? Let me suggest a month of extraordinary discipline! A firm determination each day to The Word - that is both the Personal of Jesus and to His written word. Noah Webster (1828) says discipline is a "regulation of practice" - an uninterruptible commitment to habitually do something. Those who love Jesus should not find it burdensome nor binding during Advent commit the body, mind, spirit and heart to ponder The Savior. There will certainly be much to see, hear and do as the Christmas month goes. As good as those things may be, do not allow any of them crowd-out The One Who is Center of the Season ... think-on Jesus.