As we open in our Bibles to the Gospel by Luke, chapter 2, we are continuing to look at the theme God’s Word calls us to especially ponder this season: Have we given to God our greatest and dearest treasures this Christmas?
Giving is the theme of this season, and this Christmas season we are going to look at five lives that were focused upon Christ at His birth. Each is a beautiful portrait of giving to Him what they had. Each of them has been immortalized by God for what they did.
Think of that. Five individuals did something that only God really saw, and what only a few others barely witnessed as they watched. But what those five did has become a part of what will last forever and ever.
This morning each of us are also offered the opportunity each day to do things only God really sees, and what few if any others get to witness, but when we give ourselves in acts of obedient offerings to God, we become a part of something that will last forever and ever.
Meet the Shepherds of Luke 2
Life for a shepherd in Century One was difficult at best. Cold nights, long days, distant family, and rare friends were part of the territory.
Sheep stink and shepherds smell.
Sheep wander and shepherds search.
Life was never restful; work was never done.
At the low end of Jewish society stood the shepherd. Away from the synagogue, absent from the Temple, and defiled by dead animals – they were outcasts to the Jerusalem crowd. Unable to even be a witness to special events they seemed almost outside of culture. But then everything changed.
That starry night on the hills of Bethlehem left a group of shepherds forever changed.
(GLG-02)
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