We are thrilled to share that our Christmas Devotional for Teenagers is now available for preorder! Purchase your copy of Longing for Christmas today at New Growth Press or wherever you buy books. Don’t miss the opportunity to buy in bulk for a discount on the New Growth Press website — a perfect gift for your youth ministry students, or all the kids or grandkids in your family! Enjoy this small excerpt from the devotional, available in full in Longing for Christmas.
Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none. They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink. (Psalm 69: 20-21)
Not exactly the cheery Christmas Psalm you would expect, is it? This cry from David, the author, isn’t supposed to leave a positive impression. It’s meant to put us in the posture of feeling some of the abandonment and despair that David was experiencing when he wrote this psalm… To read the rest of this devotional and all 25 entries, purchase our advent devotional, Longing for Christmas.
