If you want to read ahead in preparation for the preaching on Sunday, get into Isaiah 40. Read the chapter through a couple of times. Notice what it ways about God, His Word and His Plan. Note also what it says about this world, and the people and nations who populate it. Take time to linger not only over what it says but how it says it.
I have had this hymn by Doddridge in my heart lately. It is my worship and prayer to God about Who He is and what I am begging Him to do among us at RBC.
And will the great eternal God
On earth establish His abode?
And will He, from His radiant throne,
Accept our temple for His own?
These walls we to Thy honor raise;
Long may they echo with Thy praise;
And Thou, descending, fill the place
With choicest tokens of Thy grace.
Here let the great Redeemer reign,
With all the graces of His train;
While power divine His Word attends,
To conquer foes, and cheer His friends.
And in that great decisive day,
When God the nations shall survey,
May it before the world appear
That crowds were born to glory here.