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I hope the first few weeks of your school year has been going alright!

We understand that being faithful to God and Christian Living is not as easy as school gets busy and we spend a ton of time with our friends. We hope that you will follow along with us going through this devotional packet. Getting a dose of God’s word and spending time to pray over the day can really make a huge difference. It really can!

Think about the Day, Pray, Read the Passage

We recommend taking some time to think over your day, jot down some of the things that happened, good and bad. For example, think about some things you did that maybe you feel a bit guilty about, or things that you could have done and didn’t – “to save a life” anyone? Try to think about why you did what you did or didn’t do what you should have, and what you can learn about yourself through it.

Then pray that God may speak to you today through the text. Then read it!

Hopefully as we together do this day to day, we’ll continue to grow in our appreciation for God’s word and how real and personal God is!

InterHigh Devotional Booklet

Download the booklet here! : Hebrews9 – James3 – InterHigh Bible Devotions (right click – then “save as”)

Hope this DT booklet helps!
Let us know if these are helpful to you!

InterHigh Staff – Paul

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1) Observation – to answer the first few questions, just look to the text for the answer.

2) Discussion – dig a little deeper; what are these facts from the verse telling us?

3) Application – make it personal; how can the meaning of the texts apply to me personally?

Now that still might sound complicated to some of you. Thankfully, all of the questions are already written for us! So don’t be surprised when the first few questions have there answers in the verse (observation) and the next few make you think a bit more (discussion) or think about your own life (application).

You can find our devotions booklet to print out here. Just print it out (double sided) and fold the pages over in the center and you can make your very own devotions booklet!

If you need a version that just has the pages in order, you can find it here.

1) Read the Bible passage.

2) Write out the memory verse.

3) Choose one of the options provided (or create your own method) for personalizing, processing, and memorizing the verse.

4) Spend some time committing the verse to memory. (Review prior verses too if you choose!)

You can find our devotions booklet to print out here. Just print it out (double sided) and fold the pages over in the center and you can make your very own devotions booklet!

1) Read the Bible passage.

2) Write out the memory verse.

3) Choose one of the options provided (or create your own method) for personalizing, processing, and memorizing the verse.

4) Spend some time committing the verse to memory. (Review prior verses too if you choose!)

You can find our devotions booklet to print out here. Just print it out (double sided) and fold the pages over in the center and you can make your very own devotions booklet!

1) Read the Bible passage.

2) Write out the memory verse.

3) Choose one of the options provided (or create your own method) for personalizing, processing, and memorizing the verse.

4) Spend some time committing the verse to memory. (Review prior verses too if you choose!)

You can find our devotions booklet to print out here. Just print it out (double sided) and fold the pages over in the center and you can make your very own devotions booklet!

If you’re having trouble printing out the handy booklet and need something a little simpler, you can grab the normal layout file here.

Passion Week (aka “Holy Week”) is from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday (Resurrection Sunday). It’s called “Passion Week” because of the passion with which Jesus willingly went to the cross to pay for our sins. Passion Week is described in Matthew chapters 21-27, Mark chapters 11-15, Luke chapters 19-23, and John chapters 12-19.

We are covering the Passion account in Luke with the text each day corresponding to what happened each day as Jesus was accused and crucified. We encourage you to take extended time this week to do your DT so you can remember and appreciate what Christ has done for you.

1. Read the text two times.
2. Write your favorite verse.
3. Write one aspect of what God is like.
4. Write one aspect of how text describes you.
5. What lesson can I learn from this text?
6. Write out a prayer in response to the text.

How does Jesus define friendship, and what is the difference between a “friend” and a “servant”? Which do I relate to more?

A servant does not know what His master is doing and must blindly obey. God does not want us as minions to do His bidding – He has revealed a lot to us if we would but pause to spend time with Him, as we do with any other friend, in prayer and reading His Word, His precious journal for us. Sometimes, when I don’t understand His will, I fell more like a servant, but I don’t ask God to explain or for insight. When I feel like doing DT is a task or loving others is a burden, I must remember that Jesus sees His disciples as His friends, and He is willing to talk about what is going on. Many times, we simply close ourselves off at that point, and we choose to entertain concepts of God as a distant, oppressive killjoy in our refusal to confront the state of our hearts. But He is always open to talk with us about how we are doing. Though we are slow to communicate, Jesus already knows what we are thinking and how we feel, and He will meet us where we are.
Jesus defines friendship as those who know and understand Him and His Father’s heart. When I think about my close friends, I know their likes and dislikes, what their reactions to situations would be, their dreams for life, etc. Jesus also says, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” He did exactly that. Not only does He know everything about me, He willingly died for me when I was yet a rebellious sinner. How merciful and wondrous is our God for stooping down to pick us up and call us “friend” while we were still His enemies! Jesus is the best friend I have and could ever have. But am I His? I hesitate to call myself Jesus’ friend because it seems so unworthy. What can I possibly offer Him? The least I can do is whatever He asks of me – to obey His commandments to love others, just as He loved me. The least I can do is everything.

John 14:5-7

“Jesus’ reply is the ultimate foundation for a satisfactory philosophy of life. First, it is personal. He did not claim merely to know the way, the truth, and the life as a formula he could impart to the ignorant; but he actually claimed to be the answer to human problems. Jesus’ solution to perplexity is not a recipe; it is a relationship with him[…] He is the truth because he has the perfect power of making life one coherent experience irrespective of its ups and downs. He is the life because he was not subject to death but made it subject to him. He did not live with death as the ultimate end of his life; he died to demonstrate the power and continuity of his life.”

Reflect on v. 6.  In what ways has Jesus been the way, the truth and the life for me?

There are many ways to follow and many ways to live one’s life, and I have tried out many. I tried the ways of selfishness, watching out for my own back, being as comfortable as possible, and serving myself as much as possible with indulgences and entertainment. I have tried the ways of promoting my reputation trying to gain the praise of man, which often involved wearing masks, lying, and hypocrisy. These all left me feeling empty. These ways from the world all promised maximum happiness, and pleasure, but in reality they all resulted in isolation and numbness. These ways all lead to death. The promises of the world are all lies. Only Jesus leads to true life. Indeed Jesus is THE way, the only way to actually live, and it is the Truth. When I follow Jesus’ way of sacrificial love, humbleness, and servitude, I experience true life. I love being a part of His good work, and I love being able to be useful for God. I love forgetting about myself and losing myself for the sake of others. This was how God designed us to live, and it was the way that He had marked out for us. I had lost my way at a very young age, but now I know THE way: Jesus Christ.

John 13:6-9

What may have been going on in Peter’s mind as he refused Jesus’ offer to wash his feet?

Peter was probably overcome with a mix of emotions—confused that the Son of God would want to perform such a menial task by washing his feet, embarrassed that the Son of God was kneeling down at his feet, and maybe even angered that Jesus, the King of kings, would be humiliated in this way. The root of all of Peter’s mixed responses, though, was the sense of unworthiness that he felt at have Jesus washing his feet and an understanding of who Jesus actually is.

 What are some ways in which people respond to Jesus like Peter did?

People often respond to Jesus with confusion, embarrassment, or even anger because they do not understand Jesus’ act of sacrifice on the Cross and instead see it through the world’s eyes—a humiliating act. Because the world has no standard to comprehend and interpret such an act of sacrifice, people simply respond with a mix of emotions and feel uncomfortable. They are confused. After all, no where in the world do you see someone of great stature and power embracing a lowly and even humiliating life. Rather, when a famous and powerful celebrity or politician performs such an act, it is not a genuine act of embracing a servant-like mentality, but rather a “publicity stunt” with ulterior motives. The lowly life is something to be intentionally avoided. Therefore, instead of viewing what Jesus did as a beautiful thing, it is interpreted as a humiliating and unwanted act, not something to be accepted and embraced.

 What can I learn about what it means to have a personal relationship with Jesus from this passage?

This amazing image of Jesus really overtook me this time reading this passage. As I have come to know Jesus more, and the infinite ways in which He knows my life and thoughts more than I could ever fathom or plan out, I can only stand in awe of the Author and Creator of life. The extent to which He knows me nothing in this world, no human or thing, could even come close to matching. His act of sacrifice to wash the feet of the disciples is paralleled by His sacrifice on the Cross. I am unworthy, yet the King of kings humbled Himself in the ultimate act of love and sacrifice. The very fact that He would offer Himself to me in a servant-like manner like He did to Peter is completely amazing.

To have a personal relationship with Jesus means accepting this gift of sacrifice. Ironically, it means that the most unworthy person, who has no entitlement to pride, must let go of her own pride in feeling unworthy of such a gift. It means following Christ out of obedience (“Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.”), regardless of your own sense of worthiness of the gift or whether you believe the gift should have been given at all.