Shepherds, who knew you’d encounter
more than sheep on that fateful day?
Your life of routine was disturbed
not by an animal attacking your sheep, but by angelic news of one born to
shepherd all mankind.
You men were field dwellers, who
knew about clouds and winds, never had you expected to encounter the One
through whom nature was created.
Daily you absorbed God’s majesty
among the rocks and His provision despite the limited grazing opportunities.
You knew the wonder of sheep breeding,
and the satisfaction of hearing the startled sounds of newborn animals.
What must it have been like to have
the glory of the Lord shine around you? One angel turned into a great company
of the heavenly host “praising God and
saying ,“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his
favor rests.”
This was clearly outside the realm
of shepherding experience.
As it is outside mine, Lord, when I
contemplate your arrival in my life, in the lives of all of us.
Your favor holds the potential to
rest upon each of us. Amazing!
Hadn’t the angels also said, “I
bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.”
Shepherds you went and spoke of
Jesus “glorifying and praising God for all the things you had heard and seen,
which were just as you had been told.”
And may we like you shepherds go to
behold Jesus for ourselves, then proceed to spread the word concerning what has
been told us - about the Christ child becoming humankind’s Savior. And ours.
Luke 2:
8-20
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