This week as we have gone about our days, we have taken time to be thankful for baby Jesus who came to be our Shepherd. You can
read here about how we celebrated the first Sunday of Advent. Piper asks to light the candle every time we are at the table, and I'm loving the truths she is learning about God's faithfulness as we have coupled our weekly Advent readings with daily ones from the Jesus Storybook Bible. We are all benefiting from the daily reminder of God's BIG plan for the redemption of His people for His glory.
The first week we were waiting for our Shepherd.
This week we are "
waiting for forgiveness".
The Advent of Jesus was so much more than a miraculous birth, or the coming of a King; it meant that forgiveness for our sins had come. Forgiveness that we so desperately need is within our grasp. Forgiveness comes from our Father in heaven, and requires that He become a part of us that He might fully know our struggles and fully defeat them.
This week we read:
Psalm 130:1-8
The Psalmist makes a supplication to God for forgiveness.
Jeremiah 31:31-34
God promises the New Covenant. Praise be, He will remember our iniquity no more.
Luke 1:68-79
Zechariah's prophecy, after the birth of his son, John the Baptist. He will prepare the way for the Lord, who is tender in His mercy and will make a way for our salvation.
Jeremiah 31 31 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. 33 “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
We are praying that God continues to change us through His story, that we might know Him more with each passing day, and that we would receive fully the forgiveness that He gives us through Jesus Christ.
Read more about why our family decided to be intentional about the way we celebrate Christmas with our children here.
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