Sunday, December 15, 2019
The Wonder of
What God Has Done Through His Son:
An Advent Devotional Guide
For a child will be born to us, a son will be given
to us; and the government will rest on his shoulders; and his name will be
called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.”
Isaiah 9:6
Sometimes things become so familiar to us that we don’t even see them.
Like the Scripture above. We hear these words sung every Christmas in the
“Messiah.” They are so familiar, we barely hear what we are saying. Listen to
who this baby Jesus is to be.
·
Wonderful Counselor
How desperately we need Counsel.
·
Mighty God
Though born humbly as a human, Jesus is God!
·
Eternal Father
He told us, “I and the Father are one.”
·
Prince of Peace
The world is crying for peace and here he is right here in our
hearts! Not an infant, but a prince in charge.
We fail to realize that he is not talking about the peace that the
world seeks. The messenger to Isaiah isn’t talking about the absence of war,
the absence of marauding gangs, the absence of terrorists! He’s talking about
the “peace that passes understanding” that Jesus talked about in John
14. He’s talking about “my peace, not as the world gives!” He’s talking
about the “peace of God” that Paul says should rule in our hearts! The
Prince of Peace rules in a heart kingdom and destroys wars in the
person!
Why are we not crying out to the world that the peace they seek is
Jesus?
Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace, speechless
we come to you in awe and expectation. Amen
The Wonder of What God Has Done Through His
Son:
An Advent Devotional
Guide
prepared for First United Methodist Church of Homosassa, Florida
Winter 2009
by Patience Nave, Christian Education Coordinator
prepared for First United Methodist Church of Homosassa, Florida
Winter 2009
by Patience Nave, Christian Education Coordinator
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