Worldwide Christmas December 11, 2025 Devotional

MATTHEW 3:5 | ⁵ Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region around the Jordan were going out to him.

John preached change. But the first step to moral change was a backward glance, a moral inventory, a personal confession. Repentance starts with self-evaluation. My favorite prayer of confession is the old Anglican one taken from the 17th century Book of Common prayer: We have erred and strayed from Thy ways like lost sheep, we have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts, we have offended against thy holy laws, we have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we have done those things which we ought not to have done and there is no health in us.

Can you think of an area of your life that is unhealthy or something you have done that was wrong today?

Have you neglected to do good or put God first?

Use this Anglican prayer as your own today.