Christmas decorations are beginning to appear everywhere and the children are getting excited. Children love this time before Christmas because it gives them something for which to look forward. We all like to have something exciting and good for which to look forward, don't we? We enjoy expectancy. That is the great thing about the season of Advent. It is a season of expectancy. It is a season of looking forward expectantly to the celebration of the birth of the Savior. But it is even more than that. It is a time for entering into the expectancy that should be a part of the lives that Christians live every day of the year.

Our scripture lesson is full of expectancy. Paul is telling the Romans, and us, to look forward to something that God is going to do. "... you know what time it is, ho…