(21) Fixated on Jesus our Healer - Hebrews 4:12 (p62f)

 

(21) Fixated on Jesus our Healer - Hebrews 4:12 (p62f)

 

Fixated: Advent Meditations from the Book of Hebrews

Tim Chester

10 of those, 2020 ISBN: 9781913278953 73pp

https://www.10ofthose.com/uk/products/26683/fixated

 

Do we welcome the wounds of Jesus, our friend (Proverbs 27:6), the divine surgeon? We may need to be pruned if we are to be fruitful (John 15). Sometimes his word will need to rebuke and correct (2 Timothy 3:16). Jesus is kind and wise and skilful. We are in safe hands!

 

The sword of the Spirit (Ephesians 6:17) might slay us but the word and Spirit of God give new life (Ezekiel 37).

 

You might like to examine yourself and repent of sins of thought, word or deed, and sins of omission.

 

You may want to use a penitential Psalm such as Psalm 51.

 

Or a General Confession such as this from The Book of Common Prayer might be helpful:

 

ALMIGHTY and most merciful Father, We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep, We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts, We have offended against thy holy laws, We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, And we have done those things which we ought not to have done, And there is no health in us: But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us miserable offenders; Spare thou them, O God, which confess their faults, Restore thou them that are penitent, According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesu our Lord: And grant, O most merciful Father, for his sake, That we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life, To the glory of thy holy Name. Amen.

 

Song: Search Me O God and Know My Heart Today - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PjAvjYJ71I (cf. Psalm 139:23f)