Read through the Bible in 2 Years: Luke 13

I’m loving reading the advent devotional in “From Creation to Christ” along with a daily reading of a chapter of Luke. Hope it blesses you, too.

Then Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD….” Then Shaphan the secretary told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read from it before the king. And when the king heard the words of the Law, he tore his clothes…

2 Chronicles 34:15a, 18-19

And someone asked Jesus, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?”

And he said to them, “Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able…. And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”

Luke 13:24, 30 ESV

Heavenly Father, Forgive us for our pride and hypocrisy. Forgive us for our religious spirits, for trying to come to You through our own righteousness, while our hearts remain hard and unclean. Thank You for always preserving a remnant. You’re not impressed by kings and queens. You’re not impressed by external obedience to the law. You don’t need our money or fame. Please, Father, give us the childlike faith of Josiah. Draw us to enter through the narrow gate of faith in Jesus Christ. Give us humble and contrite hearts, tender hearts, that grieve over sin and sincerely desire to please You. Thank You for sending Jesus, meek and lowly, the Christ child wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger. It’s in His Name we pray. Amen.