A
starry night filled with angels. Shepherds watching over their flocks by night.
A young girl about to give birth. She is afraid and excited, unsure and full of
the assurance of God.
This night would confirm God’s
promises, not just to her and her children, not just to her husband, not even
just to Israel, though she was thinking that, but to all mankind.
God often does His work in unexpected
ways. He also does His glorious, saving, efficacious work on the brink of
disaster. That way, everyone knows that fulfillment is God inspired and God accomplished.
In modern terms, we recognize these events as a God-thing. Well, there is no
greater God-thing than the conception and birth of Jesus.
As the angel might have said to Mary, “Here
is salvation to you, your husband, your children and the whole world. Glory be
to God in the highest!”
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