GOD PAUSE- Dec. 26 Luke 2:22-40 It is the day after Christmas, and perhaps, like me, you still have the words and the music of a familiar or newly discovered carol circling around in your head and your heart. After the shepherds, the angels singing and the babe in the manger, today and in the days ahead we return to business as usual, after all, there are schedules to keep and tasks to be done. But the real implications of Christmas still await us. How will we hear the rest of the story? What difference will this birth make in the next days of our journey? There are those Simeons and those Annas who we will meet who are eager to get a glimpse of this savior who has been born for them, too—waiting to hear that good news of salvation that belongs now to all Gods people. The promise of that good news is just waiting for ones like us to tell the story so new eyes may be enabled to sing with Simeon, Now I have seen your salvation. Faithful God, tune our hearts join the angels songs of praise at your birth, but then open our hearts and tongues to tell the good news so that all may come to know the salvation you have in store for all your people. Amen. James L. Boyce Emeritus Professor of New Testament and Greek Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Master of Divinity, 1972 https://youtube/watch?v=9k2pkrFelqE
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 12:48:40 +0000
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