Devotion-Thursday, December 4th, 2025
By: Frances Taylor
WE WAIT FOR HIM
Advent is a time for waiting. It's an interesting time, four weeks, to wait for Christmas; four weeks to wait for Jesus to come again. Ever wonder why four weeks?
The numbers 4, 40, 400, 4000 have significance to the Jewish people. I once attended a lecture by a Hebrew study's teacher. She spoke about this and told us that the 40 years in the desert, among other uses of the number 4, described a period of waiting for new birth based on the gestation period of a human child.
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So forty years in the desert with Moses led to the birth of the Jewish people and their entrance into the Promised Land. Four thousand years was traditionally thought to be the number of years from the beginning of creation to the birth of Christ. Forty days in the wilderness for Jesus led to the beginning of His public ministry. Four weeks of Advent lead to the coming of Christmas to celebrate the birth of Jesus once again.
And still we wait. We wait for Jesus to come again. We pray for the time when pain will cease, when we will be reunited with loved ones who have gone before us. We might even be waiting for the answers to all the question we have about the mysteries of our world. Waiting, of course, calls for patience. So let us practice this virtue during these four weeks as we wait.
