The Advent season continues, that ancient tradition of preparing our hearts to celebrate Christ’s birth. We now move into the fourth and final week, whose theme is love, and that will be our focus through Christmas at “Change Begins in You.”

Before the stable, before the star, before the angels’ song—God loved you. “I have loved you with an everlasting love,” He declared through Jeremiah in chapter 31. This wasn’t sentiment; it was promise.

When Adam and Eve fled the garden, God was already planning a way back. When Abraham looked at stars, God was counting generations until the Messiah. When prophets spoke of a coming King, they weren’t announcing Plan B—they were revealing Plan A, hidden from eternity.

The manger wasn’t an emergency response to human failure. It was the fulfillment of an ancient, unbreakable promise. Jesus didn’t arrive because God finally decided to love us. He arrived because God has *always* loved us—with a love that predates our sin, transcends our circumstances, and outlasts our doubts.

This Advent, let this truth settle deep: the baby in Bethlehem represents God’s everlasting commitment to you. Not love that started at Christmas, but love that Christmas proved. Not affection earned by your goodness, but devotion secured by His faithfulness.

The incarnation wasn’t improvisation—it was intentional love. And that changes everything.

May you be blessed this Advent!

Change begins in you!