Will You Consider Jesus This Advent? - Encouragement for Today - November 10, 2026
Encouragement for Today
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November 10, 2026
Will You Consider Jesus This Advent?
Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
Author of Consider Jesus
“Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted” (Hebrews 12:3, ESV).
Christmas is not just a holiday like other holidays. It’s not a spring Sunday set aside to honor one of our parents. It’s not a summer celebration of our nation’s history. It’s not even a fall gathering of family and friends with ample servings of thankfulness on the menu — though I really do love that holiday, and I hope yours will be truly special and worshipful this year.
Christmas, though, is different. Christmas is meant to remind us that Christianity, while technically classified as one of the world’s major religions, is not, at heart, a religion at all. It’s a relationship that focuses on a Person. It is not just a means of practicing our faith. It’s Christ in me, Christ in you. That is Christianity.
And that is Christmas.
It is Jesus — the center, the core, the essence of our lives. And we must not let the holiday distract us from this great truth or cause us to lose focus on who He is.
We get busy.
Our lists overtake us.
Our memories, whether good or bad or a casserole mixture of the two, create an undertow that can easily engulf us in Christmas culture rather than help us consider Jesus, as Hebrews 12:3 invites us to:
“Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.”
The call to “consider him” in Hebrews 12:3 comes in the context of running the “race that is set before us” (Hebrews 12:1, ESV). It is an appeal to think repeatedly of Him — over and over again — as we move forward in our lives, knowing we’ll never have the endurance to finish the “race” if we let our attention drift elsewhere.
Our only hope for making it through Christmas and (more importantly) through life is to look to Jesus, “the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:2, ESV). To look and look and keep on looking. To never look anywhere else.
Perhaps already, this far out from Christmas Day, you can feel yourself growing a bit weary or fainthearted from the demands you’ve come to expect this time of year.
If that is true for you, let me give you something to consider today and each day of this season — again and again, over and over.
Consider Jesus.
Lord, fully capture my attention this Christmas. Help me savor You and stay enthralled with You above every activity, event, and highlight of this season. Thank You for bringing Your presence so close. May I never tire of looking for You and longing for You — repeatedly, unceasingly. Today and forever. In Jesus’ name, amen.
OUR FAVORITE THINGS
Amid all that competes for your attention during the Christmas season, Nancy’s 31-day Advent devotional, Consider Jesus: Meditations on the Person and Work of Christ, will provide a daily reminder to ponder the Prince of Peace, to savor the Savior, and to gaze at the Great I Am.
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FOR DEEPER STUDY
1 Samuel 12:24, “... consider what great things he has done for you” (ESV).
Psalm 143:5, “I remember the days of old; I meditate on all that you have done; I ponder the work of your hands” (ESV).
What are the things that tend to draw your focus away from Jesus during the Christmas season? How could you adjust your plans or expectations to keep Him truly central? Share your thoughts in the comments!
© 2026 by Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth.
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