Come, Let Us Adore Him

I just want to say that I love me some Jesus!

And I mean that, I love me SOME Jesus. Following Him is not easy. So it’s hard to love someone completely Who can ask so much of me.

It’s interesting to see how cycles work. We are in the middle of one. Actually multiple ones. We are each going through our own cycles of righteousness, happiness, being content, wanting to improve, etc. Ladies you have your own schedules for your own cycles. Right now you may be going through that. I wish you the best of luck. I’m so grateful I’m not a girl. But you have my respect! We are always going though a lunar cycle! (I will talk about my love for the Moon in a different post! She’s beautiful) We are about to start Winter! Whether the weather is showing it is different based on the area where you reside. But we are in the cycle of Christmas time! I say cycle because the magic and joy and love and just general common decency (which isn’t so common these days, just like common sense) abounds for this small season and then disappears. We talk about how we are going to keep the Christ in CHRISTmas and keep this feeling year round. Keep our love for our Lord and for each other year round. Be kinder and more charitable and more understanding year round. But it seems like just another cycle that we all go through.

I just got into the artist Francesca Battistelli. If you haven’t started listening to her, get to it. She is a Christian singer and has some good albums. Because of the time of year I am listening to her Christmas album. One of the songs is called “Heaven Everywhere”. Listen to it! And the whole album. But one verse that sticks out every time I listen to it.

Somehow there's a little more of love

And maybe there's a little less of us

Or maybe we're just slightly more aware

There's a little bit of heaven everywhere

It basically sums up how I feel about this time of year. We are giving up parts of us to turn outward and help others. By doing so we are creating more heaven everywhere. That is what heaven is going to be like. It makes me think of the City of Enoch.

And the Lord called his people Zion, because they were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness; and there was no poor among them.

Moses 7:18

It’s sound so good. But it also sounds like it is so far away from where we are at as a world.

But I know it is possible!

It is possible because a Babe was born in Bethlehem over two millennia ago. He was conceived of a virgin named Mary by the power of God. He grew up in the way God would have Him grow up and did the things God would have Him do. But what is amazing about all that is that Jesus chose to do all those things of His own free will and choice.

If you don’t know by now, now you will, but I love the hymns! (If you go to BYU-I take Hymns and Doctrine for Sister Davis! You won’t regret it.) Well basically any song that talks about Jesus and gives me cause to rejoice in His name and the glory of my God. But there are times that lines from hymns will pop into my head. This has been one that has played in my head recently with everything that is going on in the world and Church. Fun fact: This hymn was the first hymn in Emma Smith’s hymn book from 1835.

Know this, that ev'ry soul is free

To choose his life and what he'll be;

For this eternal truth is giv'n:

That God will force no man to heav'n.

Hymn №240

But this illustrates the point I was trying to make. God could not have force Christ to do His will. Christ chose to do it of His own volition. And that is what we get to work on in this life.

King Benjamin in the Book of Mormon put it best when he said:

For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.

Mosiah 3:19

In order to come unto God we have to give ourselves up. We must become as children. This is not an easy task. God must get frustrated with us. He knows that we know better. We know how to be happy. We know what to do. But I don’t think it was ever meant to be easy. But it is possible. Christ did it. But because He did it and accomplished the Law and performed the Atonement, we can do it too! What beautiful news!

One of the many Christmas carols/ hymns that we sing at this time of year invites us to “Come, let us adore Him.”

Adore:

verb (used with object), adored, adoring.

1. to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.

2. to pay divine honor to; worship:

Let’s do it!

That Christ may ever be a central part of my life and that I may say with confidence and with my actions emphatically I LOVE THE LORD, is my prayer.

God Bless! Until Next Time!