Hope you are all enjoying preparing for the Baby Jesus! Do you have the Advent Calendar? You can download it here.
This is the short devotional one of our 6th grade students read in church on Sunday:
Today, we begin to prepare our hearts for the Baby Jesus, our Salvation wrapped in a human body. This week we think about Jesus our Healer, who came to heal us from sickness and death and the effects of sin in our lives.
The Bible says,
4 Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
Let’s pray:
Dear Jesus,
Thank you that when you came to earth it was with the purpose of bringing us peace and healing. You came knowing you would be wounded and crucified, yet you came as a little helpless baby. Thank you for your healing power in our hearts, in our minds and in our bodies.
So, Jesus, we come to you today wounded and broken, in need of your healing. We bring our broken hearts and bodies to you as a birthday gift for you, knowing that these are more precious to you than gold, frankincense and myrrh. We trust you Lord with our hearts. You can heal the hurt feelings, rejection and all bitterness. We trust you Lord with our bodies. You are the great physician, capable of healing the most stubborn of diseases. We trust you because you are good and you are sovereign and you are trustworthy.
Baby Jesus, we worship at your manger and say, “Come into our hearts and heal us from the inside out.”
Amen.