DEC 1 ADVENT @ BC 2022!
This page contains one of the devotionals in our Advent 2022 mini-devo series, devotions created by members and partners of our church community. For more information on Advent @ BC 2022, CLICK HERE.
Thursday, December 1st Advent Mini-Devo - By Angel Jones. (Angel is one of the missionaries we have the privilege to support. She serves in Southeast Asia, as a teacher in Chiang Mai, Thailand at the School of Promise. She also seeks to opportunties to minister to migrant Khmer workers there in Thailand, and has a hope to return to Cambodia to resume ministry to the Khmer people there, if God wills it!
As I think about the hope Mary and the wedding servants may have felt when Jesus stepped up to the clay jars filled with water, waiting to see what he would do, I think this story can also give us hope in our own lives as well. Each of us is like a big, clay jar, an empty vessel, ready to be filled up. Just as the servants filled the jars with water, our lives are filled with our experiences, education, relationships, hobbies, and even our memories. These things make us who we are, but still they can only take us so far.
However, as the blessing in our devotional mentioned, God “is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.” He can use the people and events in our lives to shape us and transform us. He is able to redeem our difficult circumstances, enabling us to become better equipped to help others who may be experiencing similar hardships. He is able to change water into wine, and he is able to change our lives in a way that brings him glory and honor. And when others see what he has done with our “water,” they too might believe and choose to follow him.
This page contains one of the devotionals in our Advent 2022 mini-devo series, devotions created by members and partners of our church community. For more information on Advent @ BC 2022, CLICK HERE.
Thursday, December 1st Advent Mini-Devo - By Angel Jones. (Angel is one of the missionaries we have the privilege to support. She serves in Southeast Asia, as a teacher in Chiang Mai, Thailand at the School of Promise. She also seeks to opportunties to minister to migrant Khmer workers there in Thailand, and has a hope to return to Cambodia to resume ministry to the Khmer people there, if God wills it!
As I think about the hope Mary and the wedding servants may have felt when Jesus stepped up to the clay jars filled with water, waiting to see what he would do, I think this story can also give us hope in our own lives as well. Each of us is like a big, clay jar, an empty vessel, ready to be filled up. Just as the servants filled the jars with water, our lives are filled with our experiences, education, relationships, hobbies, and even our memories. These things make us who we are, but still they can only take us so far.
However, as the blessing in our devotional mentioned, God “is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.” He can use the people and events in our lives to shape us and transform us. He is able to redeem our difficult circumstances, enabling us to become better equipped to help others who may be experiencing similar hardships. He is able to change water into wine, and he is able to change our lives in a way that brings him glory and honor. And when others see what he has done with our “water,” they too might believe and choose to follow him.