Title: When the Simple Becomes Sacred (3)
Series: Thoughts of Christmas
Author: Tim Melton
Text: Luke 2:8-20
Many times, when we look to the scripture we think of men and women who were used mightily by God to accomplish great things. We often imagine them as spiritual giants who were so far beyond anything we could ever become. In our minds they must have been just slightly less than perfect. However, if we will take the time to dig a little deeper in the scriptures we will see that they were simple people who were used by a mighty God.
We see Abraham, the patriarch, whose descendants will be numbered like the starts in the sky, but also knowing that he was a mere nomad who struggled with a lack of courage and a lack of faith at times. We see Moses who was used of God to lead the children of Abraham out of Egyptian slavery, but who had also been a murderer who had spent 40 of his best years in the wilderness taking care of sheep. We read of David who was the youngest son and a simple shepherd. In the hands of God David became a great king of Israel. The prophet Amos was a picker of figs. The mighty warrior Gideon had started out as the youngest son, from the weakest clan in the smallest tribe of Israel. The apostle Peter was a fisherman. Throughout the Bible we see the simple used for God's sacred purposes.
When you look back at Christmas paintings through the centuries you see that the painters were thinking the same way. They portray Mary and Joseph with haloes and an angelic look about them, when in reality they were two teenagers, from a small, unnoteworthy village in northern Galilee, who were tasked with raising the Son of God. They were simple people who God called to a sacred task.
That should be an encouragement to we imperfect, normal people, who long to play a meaningful part in the Kingdom of God. As we look to the Christmas story we see once again that God takes the simple and makes it sacred.
Let us read Luke 2:8-20,
8 And there ...
Series: Thoughts of Christmas
Author: Tim Melton
Text: Luke 2:8-20
Many times, when we look to the scripture we think of men and women who were used mightily by God to accomplish great things. We often imagine them as spiritual giants who were so far beyond anything we could ever become. In our minds they must have been just slightly less than perfect. However, if we will take the time to dig a little deeper in the scriptures we will see that they were simple people who were used by a mighty God.
We see Abraham, the patriarch, whose descendants will be numbered like the starts in the sky, but also knowing that he was a mere nomad who struggled with a lack of courage and a lack of faith at times. We see Moses who was used of God to lead the children of Abraham out of Egyptian slavery, but who had also been a murderer who had spent 40 of his best years in the wilderness taking care of sheep. We read of David who was the youngest son and a simple shepherd. In the hands of God David became a great king of Israel. The prophet Amos was a picker of figs. The mighty warrior Gideon had started out as the youngest son, from the weakest clan in the smallest tribe of Israel. The apostle Peter was a fisherman. Throughout the Bible we see the simple used for God's sacred purposes.
When you look back at Christmas paintings through the centuries you see that the painters were thinking the same way. They portray Mary and Joseph with haloes and an angelic look about them, when in reality they were two teenagers, from a small, unnoteworthy village in northern Galilee, who were tasked with raising the Son of God. They were simple people who God called to a sacred task.
That should be an encouragement to we imperfect, normal people, who long to play a meaningful part in the Kingdom of God. As we look to the Christmas story we see once again that God takes the simple and makes it sacred.
Let us read Luke 2:8-20,
8 And there ...
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