Season of Anticipation

Temporal

It's the holiday season. Ah-h, the joy of it, no? We start as children thinking of the toys and trinkets that we will get on Christmas Day. But there is another holiday that comes about a month before then and that is Thanksgiving Day. That is a day that man has set aside for giving the Lord thanks for all of the blessings that He has given. We get together with family and friends and stuff ourselves with turkey, dressing, pie, cranberry sauce and many other fixings. And we enjoy it don't we? Uhm, hmm.

Eternal

We start as children thinking of the joys and blessings that we will get when we get to heaven. On that day all of the trouble and trials of this life will be wiped away. That is the day that the Lord has set aside for the rewards of living for Him during our temporal time. When we get there, we will know as we are known and enjoy the things that the Lord has prepared for us because we loved Him.

Poetry Application

I don't wait for a special day to thank God for His goodness to me

I do that with every day that I am blessed to see

And scholars say that they don't really know the day of Jesus' birth

So I celebrate His life every day with joy and mirth

Because on the day that He died, He told me of my worth to Him

He picked me up from the miry clay of sin and cleaned me

And polished me like I was a treasured gem

Oh, the joy of Christmas, yessiree

The ultimate gift from my God to me

Thanking Him for each moment that He

Has allowed a penitent sinner such as I to see

And thanking Him for the chance to

Tell of His love to all humanity.

Thanking my way all the way to glory

As I live for Jesus and tell my story

Living for the time that I get to stay

With my God through all eternity.

Ah, the joy of anticipation

It's gonna be great, don't you see

The untold joys that He has prepared

For you and for me.

Doing What I Can, While I Can Because I Care,

Alma L. Stepping On Jones