Week 1: His Suffering Brings Peace
When you go grocery shopping with your parents do you ever ask for everything you see? Ice cream? Raspberries? Corn dogs? Doritos? Fresh cinnamon rolls? Even candy? Shoppers have to decide just what to buy. We need a variety of foods for our meals and all the items we want need to be paid for. There is a price to be paid. Grown-ups know this and balance the goods they need and want with the amount of payment they actually have. So, sometimes or maybe more than sometimes, adults have to say ‘No, we cannot buy that. This price is too high!’
In our Bible reading for this first week of Advent, Jesus begins to tell His followers that He will be going to Jerusalem and that He is going to suffer and have some terrible things happen to Him. His friend, Peter, becomes upset and is sure that this will never happen. But it will! Jesus knows that there is a price that needs to be paid in order for Him to complete God’s mission—the price is His death on the Cross to take away our sin that separates us from God and to make a way for us to reconnect with God, our Father. Jesus’ death paid our price to be right with God. Have you told Jesus that you want to follow Him and accept the price He paid for your sins? Talk with each of your family members about walking with Jesus.
- How do you think the disciples felt as Jesus described why they were going to Jerusalem? What is one question you would have asked Jesus, if you would have been there?
- What price did Jesus pay for our sin? Why do you think He was willing to pay this price (to die on the Cross)?
by Dawn Schuessler
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