The Yearning

Luke 12:35-37a, Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning, and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes.

How hard it is to remain alert in a world that sings us a thousand lullabies hoping to get our attention drifting. We ought to love God such that, like a restless dog not content until his master returns, we wait anxiously for Him knowing that the yearning He has placed in us will not be satisfied until He has come for us. Praise God for yearning, for restless dissatisfaction with the status quo! It is the one thing that reminds us not to get comfortable in this world but to joyfully anticipate our true fulfillment that comes when He returns! Yearning keeps us awaiting and alert for we know that the house is empty, dark, and cold until the Master returns.

On this theme, below is a song that beautifully captures the yearning of the human heart for the restoration of all things that only Our Messiah, Our Emmanuel can accomplish. It's a beautiful choral piece which, if you can find it for online purchase, please let me know about it!

There is a yearning in hearts weighed down by ancient grief and centuries of sorrow.
There is a yearning
In hearts that in the darkness hide
And in the shades of death abide,
A yearning for tomorrow.

There is a yearning,
A yearning for the promised One, the Firstborn of creation.
There is a yearning for
The Lord who visited His own,
And by His death for sin atoned,
To bring to us salvation.

There is a yearning
That fills the hearts of those who wait the day of His appearing.
There is a yearning
When all our sorrows are erased
And we shall see the One who placed
Within our hearts the yearning.

Emmanuel, Emmanuel, within our hearts, the yearning.