In Luke’s account of the first Christmas, the birth of Jesus is mentioned almost as if in passing (see Luke 1:6-7a).
The song of the angels announcing the glories of the Messiah’s birth would be entrusted not to people of political or social importance, but rather simple blue-collar shepherds (see Luke 2:8-14).
That morning the world woke up, went about their business, and had no idea that they were being visited by God himself. I wonder if this isn’t often the case for you and me today.
When the God who was born in Bethlehem’s manger comes to meet with you— might he do so in a way that seems almost embarrassingly ordinary? Are you cultivating eyes to see the ordinary means by which God so often does his most extraordinary work?
