Sessions Include:

Lesson #1
Isaiah
Isaiah 7.10 – 14; 9.6 – 7; 11.1 - 5

Lesson #2
Joseph’s Obedience
Matthew 1.18 - 25

Lesson #3
Mary
Luke 1.26 - 38  

Lesson #4
The Angels
Luke 2.1 - 15

Lesson #5
Simeon
Luke 2.22 - 35

Lesson #6
Wise Men
Matthew 2.1 - 12

Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any God besides You, who acts for the one who waits for Him. —ISAIAH 64:4

We’ve heard it many times. Just wait on the Lord. Yet how many of us have realized he promises to act on our behalf when we wait on him? What does it look like to wait on him? While there is no easy answer to this question, we can look at a story Christ told.

Our story opens with a son who has come to demand his share of his father’s inheritance. The rebellious boy took the money and went to a far country, squandering it on women, wine, and song. Without a penny, he found himself starving and slopping pigs for a farmer.

Finally, he thought, “I will go home to my father and beg his forgiveness. It would be better to be his servant than to live like this.” Still a distance away, his father saw him and went running to embrace him. He shouted for the servants to kill the fatted calf, to cover the young man with a fine robe, and to put a ring on his finger, for this boy, once dead to him, was now alive. He was lost, but now he was found.

What a wonderful story, but let’s think about it. In the beginning, the father could have run after the boy and refused to let him go. He could have tried to control him, thereby losing his relationship forever, but he did not. He waited on the Lord. The result: God acted on his behalf, and in God’s own way, God brought the boy to himself and turned his heart toward home and toward his father (Luke 15:11–32).

Yes, indeed, God does act on behalf of those who wait for him. —Lana Bateman

Faith, Women of. 2012. Daily Gifts of Grace: Devotions for Each Day of Your Year. Nashville: Thomas Nelson.