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.
Then I said to them, ‘If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.’ And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver. Then the Lord said to me, ‘Throw it to the potter’. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord, to the potter. (Zechariah 11: 12 – 14a)
This event in the life of the Old Testament prophet Zechariah foreshadows in the most detailed way Judas’ betrayal of the Lord Jesus. Have you ever been betrayed or sold out by someone? I sure have. It is the worst kind of hurt. Jesus was sold out for thirty pieces of silver by a trusted friend which led to his humiliating and painful death on a cross…To read the rest of this devotional and all 25 entries, purchase our advent devotional, Longing for Christmas.
