Hidden Christmas: 'Is He a Wonderful Counselor?' (Ch1)

Friends-

Are you up for connecting as YOU read 'Hidden Christmas?'  It's day 2 of Advent. Here's a gold nugget that was worthy of mining for.  On page 14, the question of Jesus being our 'Wonderful Counselor' explored how qualified he is for that title given in Jesus' foreshadow in Isaiah 9. Do you think he's a wonderful counselor?  Sometimes we wish this wonderful counselor would solve our problems; to deliver us rather than develop us.

Inland NW Young Life staff and friends

One friend who is reading along with us in our region, highlighted a quote (page 14) from Dorothy Sayers. 'The incarnation means that for whatever reason God chose to let us fall...to suffer, to be subject to sorrows and death-- he has nonetheless had the honesty and the courage to take his own medicine... He was born into poverty and suffering infinite pain--all for us--and thought it well worth his while."

That's our King! He models how he invites us to live; He enters in the heaviness that he knows we have carried too.  That's our savior.  This is what we invite our Young Life leaders to do as well, in the lives of kids.

What do YOU appreciate about Jesus?