Week 11 (The Living World) – Day 3: The Birth of Jesus

Day 53 – The Birth of Jesus – Luke 2:1-40

We read the familiar Christmas story today.  I hope we are amazed that God did not enter the world with concern for standards of the world.  Jesus was not born in Rome to the Emperor.  God was not interested in the ways of the powerful and rich.  Instead we see God revealed in a place completely removed from power and riches.  Does this provide comfort or challenge to us?

Likewise the first people who worship Jesus are shepherds.  By the standards of Jewish purity laws of holiness, shepherds were at the bottom of the heap.  Shepherds are unclean with little hope of inclusion in the religious system of the time.  Once again, does this challenge us in how we see others in society today, or provide hope to us?  Or maybe both?

In Christ,

Randy