Prepare the Way

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

163859, Religion & Spirituality, John Piper, Jesus, Solid Joys, Daily Devotional, Joy, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Devotional, Desiring God

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🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

This Advent, bend the efforts of your imagination to make the wonder of Jesus’s arrival visible for your children.

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0:00.0	December 1, prepare the way.
0:09.6	He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God.
0:14.2	He will go before Him in the Spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers
0:20.0	to the children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just to make ready for the Lord
0:26.4	a people prepared, Luke 1, 16, and 17.
0:32.3	What John the Baptist did for Israel, Advent, can do for us.
0:37.4	Don't let Christmas find you unprepared.
0:40.6	I mean spiritually unprepared.
0:44.1	Its joy and impact will be so much greater if you are ready.
0:50.5	So that you might be prepared, first meditate on the fact that we need a Savior.
0:59.6	Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight.
1:04.7	Unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior who is Christ the Lord.
1:12.2	Luke 2, 11.
1:13.6	If you don't need a Savior, you don't need Christmas.
1:18.0	This will not have its intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior.
1:23.8	Let these short Advent meditations help awaken in you a bittersweet sense of need for the
1:31.9	Savior.
1:32.9	Second, engage in sober self-examination.
1:37.4	Advent is to Christmas what Lent is to Easter.
1:41.3	Search me, oh God, and know my heart.
1:44.3	Try me, and know my thoughts, and see if there be any grievous way in me and lead me in
1:52.4	the way everlasting.
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