Advent: When Heaven and Nature Find Their Voice, Day 6

Advent teaches us to listen for the footsteps of the King who comes near. In His wake, the world itself learns to sing again.

The New Song of Advent

Isaac Watts once captured the heartbeat of Advent when he wrote:

“He comes to make His blessings flow far as the curse is found.”

Watts drew these words from Psalm 98, a psalm that thunders with the jubilant announcement that heaven and nature sing the arrival of the King. As we enter the sixth day of Advent, we meditate, hear, and sing this psalm because it offers a powerful glimpse into the nature of Jesus’ coming. We affirm the Second Coming of our Lord, yet it is the First Coming—His incarnation—that gives birth to this psalmic roar and begins the great reversal of all things.

To think of Advent is to think of expectation. It is to desire something so deeply that it consumes you and orders your hopes. During Advent, we pray for the coming of Christ not only at the end of history but now, today, into our worship, confession, song, and benediction. Come, Lord Jesus is not merely an eschatological cry. It is the weekly and daily longing of disciples who want His nearness in the life of this body. Psalm 98 teaches us to hope in Jesus in our own day, inviting us to join both the cries of the first disciples and those rising from our own hearts.