1. Psalm 98, with its promise of a sea and mountains singing, takes these imposing natural features and turns them into a praise choir.
  2. Despite our best efforts to avoid him, King Jesus remains very much unavoidable.
  3. The king has arrived and has already begun his reign forever and ever.
  4. God the Father sent us – his wayward, sinful, and naughty children – his own series of Father Christmas Letters.
  5. To trust in the Lord, the Messiah, the Deliverer, is our salvation and our only hope. Yet he does not trust us to have this “trust” on our own or of our own will.
  6. Psalm 8 is a trailer for the entire biblical movie, and the entire biblical movie centers on Christ.
  7. Who would ever want all these screamers and haters? It turns out that Christ does.
  8. Take courage, you who were lost: Jesus comes to seek and save that which is lost. Ye sick, return to health: Christ comes to heal the contrite of heart with the balm of his mercy. Rejoice, all you who desire great things: the Son of God comes down to you that he may make you the co-heirs of his kingdom.
  9. In whatever direction the bias of men might be, from thence he might recall them, and teach them of his own true Father, as he himself says: I came to save and to find that which was lost.
  10. The waiting of Advent isn’t just for Christmas; it’s for God’s reversal of all sin and evil and his renewal of all things.
  11. Let us rejoice, then, in this grace so that our glory may be the testimony of our conscience wherein we glory not in ourselves but in the Lord (2 Cor. 1:12).