Behold He Comes

In this season when many things may leave us feeling disappointed, listen as Jane shines light on a very present Word inspired by the familiar Christmas carol, Hark the Herald Angels sing. Be encouraged...Behold, He Comes!

Ecclesiastes 3:11
Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.

It can be difficult to understand what God is doing when we can't see it all laid out in front of us. It's easy to feel like God missed something or forgot, when in fact, He is working everything out in a way that's greater than our own abilities.

• Have you experienced a time where you felt God was running late, according to your own timeline?
• Have you felt like something has passed you by because it didn't happen when you wanted or still hasn't happened?

VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION

We’re living in such a joyful season, the Christmas season. This year, in some ways, it feels a little different but as believers, as Christians, we always know where to go to find our joy. It’s not necessarily what we hear on the news, or read in newspapers, but as we share with one another and encourage one another, we know that the joy of the Lord is within us. And because it is the Christmas season, a particular Christmas carol has come to my mind. It was actually one of my mother’s favorite’s, and i’ll reference a particular verse in a moment here that she just spoke about, and it just went into my heart. But it’s that very familiar carol: “Hark the herald angels sing, Glory to the Newborn King. Peace on earth, and mercy mild. God and sinners reconciled. Joyful all ye nations rise. Join the triumph of the skies”. Can you just see it? “Join the triumph of the skies. With angelic hosts proclaim: Christ is born in Bethlehem. Hark the herald angels sing. Glory to the Newborn King”. In the second verse is the verse that contains a line that spoke to my mother, and has spoken to me frequently: “Christ by highest heavens adored, Christ the everlasting Lord.” Now here’s the line: “Late in time, behold he comes” Think about that. “Late in time, behold he comes. Offspring of a virgin’s womb. Veiled in flesh the godhead see, hail the incarnate Deity. Pleased as man with men to dwell, Jesus our Emmanuel. Hark the herald angels sing, Glory to the Newborn King”.

And I want to pick up on the line my mother referenced. I thought of it so often, it’s in the second verse when it says “Late in time, behold he comes”. Do you ever feel that way? In your own life? This was speaking historically. So much had gone on before the actual birth and arrival of the Savior, the Redeemer, Christ the King. But in our own lives, we can feel the same way. Late in time. “I thought you would have been here before.” Or “why are these circumstances continuing on?” Or “why do I hurt a particular way?” Or “where are the expectations being fulfilled that seem so godly and so right”? Late in time, behold he comes. 

It isn’t always in our timing. even though our expectations can be good, seem right and righteous. We can trust the timing of God, that when He comes, it will be for the highest and fullest fulfillment of his glory and his word. So, if you are in a place personally, where you feel something’s passed you by, or what you hoped for hasn’t seem to come to pass, think of this verse in this well-known Christmas carol “Hark the Herald Angels Sing”: Late in time, behold he comes.

He will come for you. He will fulfill every promise, every hope, every dream that He has put in your heart. Let him do it. Merry Christmas!