Advent- We are nothing without Jesus

We realize during this Christmas season our need for the coming king Jesus when we remind ourselves of our sinful nature and the nature of the people of Israel how they kept rejecting God.  The people of Israel worshiped their own idols not the one true God.  It says in Isiah 48:5, "Therefore I told you these things long ago; before they happened I announced them to you so that you could that say, 'My idols did them, my wooden image and metal god ordained them.'
  The people of Israel constantly turned their backs on God when they needed him.  That's why God sent Jesus on earth, to remind them without God they are nothing.  In Isiah 53:2, it says "He grew up before him like a tender shoot and like a root out of the dry ground." He was human just like one of us.
 In the same way, without God we modern day Christians are nothing without him.  In Romans 3:23, it says "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."  Paul also says about our depravity in Romans 3:10-12.  "As it is written, "There is none righteous, not even one; there is none who understands, there is none who seeks for God; all have turned aside, together they have become useless, there is none who does good, there is not even one."
  The good thing is that when we depend on Him we can live through his free grace and mercy.  Paul explains in Romans 6:14, "Sin is no longer your master, for you are no longer subject to the law, which enslaves you to sin.  Instead you are free by God's grace."
In, 2 Corinthians 3:5, Paul talks about desperate dependency on God, "Not that we are any way confident of doing on our own resources- our ability comes from God." from the Phillips translation.  We are nothing without Him, we are desperately dependent on him for everything.  Waiting for the coming king during the Christmas season reminds us all the more of how much we needed a Savior in our life.