Wednesday, December 18 – WORSHIP FULLY

In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night.    –Luke 2:8 (NRSV)

The shepherds!  Who were these guys?  It is told that they were the youngest sons with a work that was arduous at times.  They worked all during the night to keep their flocks safe from predators.  Many other Jews had more knowledge, wealth, were more pious, had more stature in the community, yet the first call to worship the little Lord Jesus was sent out to these boys of the fields.  Why?  Or maybe more important, why not?  These were the small group of boys blessed with the first Good News of their Savior’s birth.  God seems to have some sort of plan to use the smelly, unlovely, lame, meek, poor, young --- you get the idea.

Why? Here I am Lord!                                                 by Lou Hanson