Advent 2025 Devotionals

In this season, Isaiah reminds us of the coming Messiah and what that Messiah will do with and for the people of Zion. This includes us today.

Jesus was born about seven hundred years after Isaiah describes the kind of future that God’s people were going to have. There is so much encouragement in realizing that there is hope for salvation.

Advent presents us with an opportunity to reassess the way God is at work in our lives. Times of waiting will do this for us if we are honest. If it had not been for the Lord…This refrain repeats over and over…

Psalm 124 speaks to God’s unfailing protection and deliverance in perilous times. It invites us to constantly remember and give thanks for His intervention in our lives as it emphasizes our dependency on God.

It does not matter what time frame one is living in, God’s hands are always powerfully delivering and protecting His children from the enemy.

There is a similar call that rings through each of these readings assigned for today.

How many Christmases do you want? This really begs a further question. What does Christmas mean to you?

We love to read Hebrews 11—Faith’s Hall of Fame—and rightly so as it is a wonderful reminder of our great forebears in the faith.

PEACE BE WITHIN YOU

After being invited to join a group of worshippers on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, we read in verse 2 that the psalmist begins a song of gratitude for having been there.