Christmas is For Those Who Seek Peace

We spend much of the Christmas season searching. Searching for a parking spot to go Christmas shopping. Searching for the perfect gift. Searching for the right recipe for family dinner. Searching for enough time to fit everything in. We get so busy searching that what we often miss is God’s Christmas gift to us. What are you searching for this Christmas?

1. What is keeping you too busy to seek Jesus?

     a. Is there a change you can make to make time for Jesus?

2. What question are you wrestling with right now?

     a. What questions have you heard from your family, friends, or co-workers?

3. What promise has God been reminding you of lately?

4. What are ways you can search for God?

5. Read John 14:27; Philippians 4:7; Romans 5:10 — Peace from God, peace of God, and peace with God: how are these three different from each other?

6. Do you ever struggle with feeling forgiven? Read Psalm 130:3-4; Isaiah 43:25; 1 John 1:9 — Does one of these verses give you something to hold onto when your feelings try to deceive you?

7. What external thing disrupts your peace? What eternal thing can you do to combat that?

8. Do you ever feel like you are trying to earn your salvation? Read Romans 10:13; Acts 10:43; Ephesians 2:8-9 — What does God say about that?

9. Read Psalm 36:7-9; Psalm 103:10-18; Psalm 32:1-2 — Is there a grief, guilt, or grudge robbing you of peace? What in these verses helps you defeat them?