Born So We Could Be Born Again

Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens · Dec 24, 2021 · 4m

Last Christmas, our pastor used the hymn Hark! The Herald Angels Sing as inspiration for a sermon. In the third verse, eighteenth-century preacher Charles Wesley wrote lyrics about how Jesus was born to give us second birth. But what does it mean to have second birth? When Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s command, sin and death entered the world. God’s good creation was stained by the brokenness of humanity. And without Jesus, we also deserve to die. But God sent Jesus to our world as a baby, vulnerable and helpless, born in the place where animals were kept. Our Creator became like us. He got…