The focus of this season is our celebration of the coming or arrival of Jesus the Christ. So we celebrate His coming near to us approximately 2000 years ago.

However I pose to you a question. Is Christ not trying to come near to us even now? He may be prodding you with a problem. He may, like Paul, keep a thorn in our side, reminding us His grace is sufficient. He may even have us very accomplished and successful, but yet there is still a feeling of something more for us to be, and to feel complete. Nothing fills the void in our life, like Jesus Christ the Anointed One and His Anointing.

Think of the night He was born. No one paused to check on the pregnant teenager who had slipped into town on a donkey late in the evening. No, they were too busy with the hustle and bustle of the day. Shops had to be opened, businesses awakened, and money had to be made. No there was no time to fee the coming close of our Savior, for the agenda of everyday living had to take place. Somehow they failed to realize, without Christ, there is no life.

I see the same means taking place yet even in today’s society. We are about the hustle and bustle of life; the moving up and down and the going to and fro. We don't have time to notice the Lover of our soul is pressing His way through the canal of eternity, into the realm of time only to be close to us. Drawing ever so near, calling us ever so quietly. "Come to Me, you broken one, and I will give you rest. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. Take Me upon you, I will give you rest!"

You see He loves us. He REALLY LOVES US! And when you really love someone, you can’t go a moment, a day, or a night without thinking about them. You awake with them on your mind, and you vision them throughout your sleep. You simply want to be near them. And you will do whatever it takes to draw them near unto you, for your soul thirst for them. This is why He said on the Cross, "I thirst." It was not because He physically was thirsty, but because He thirsted just to be close to you and me.

What is Christ doing in your life right now? How is He trying to draw near unto you? Is He pulling at your heart strings with a situation, person, or thing? How is He wooing you unto Him? Whatever is that persistent thing in your life which keeps calling, and calling and calling, run to it, for in it you will find Him.