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Devotional: December 24th

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Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. Isaiah 40:3-4; Matthew 3:3. Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in. Malachi 3:1.

The Lord exhorts us to prepare the way for Him. He also promises to send His messenger to prepare the way. It is, therefore, not we alone who do it. For that reason we should not be discouraged and ask, "How shall I be able to prepare the way for God, the Most High? " You shall desire it, and rejoice to see that the Lord comes to you and into your heart. Only surrender your heart. Long for Him. Give the present tenants of your heart, your pride, your faint-heartedness, your coldness, your indolence, their dismissal. Let it be your will because it is the Lord’s will. Only offer yourself. The Lord will send His messenger to meet you. His preparatory grace to repentance, power to a change of mind, by which all paths are made "straight" for the Lord, and by which the most beautiful way is prepared into your heart. The Lord gives us what He demands from us, what by His coming into the heart He assumes in us. When He says, "Prepare the way for me, that I may come unto you," He means, "Let me prepare the way to your heart; let me come unto you; open up unto me, when I knock; hear my voice, when I call you; do not run away from me; do not barricade the way against me; do not turn away from me when I turn unto you. Do not be self-sufficient. Do not trust in your own virtue and strength, because this is a mountain in the way, and it must be carried off. Do not doubt my grace and mercy, because this doubt is the valley that must be filled with confidence in me. Do not seek yourself, nor honor, nor pleasure, nor anything beside, me, because these are crooked ways that must be made straight with the honest intention of pleasing me. All crude prejudices must be made plain and be changed into the purest longing and desire to become one with me. "

Prepare your hearts to meet Him,

Ye sons of men, prepare!

Make straight the way, and greet Him,

The Savior draweth near.

He leaves His heavenly throne

To be our humble brother.

Born of the Virgin Mother,

And yet God’s only Son.

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