A
dozen eyes blinked at the night sky long after it had grown silent. Had they
really seen that? Heard that? Angles? They pulled their gaze from the sky to
stare at each other. Nothing had changed. They were still dirty, rough,
uneducated. They were still just shepherds.
But the angel’s words echoed in
their hearts: “Unto you is born this day…” “Unto you…” Unto us? Everyone knew
the stories about a Messiah coming one day, but wouldn't he come to the palace?
Wouldn't Herod and the leaders be the first to know? Unto us a child is born? Something stirred
within the shepherds' hearts. God had come, the angels said. God was here and
He had told them first.
How
fast they must have run to see if this was true. It was. God was here, in the
flesh, in a cow trough with a couple of peasants to guard him. The Messiah had
come and it was nothing like they had imagined it would be. It was better. He
had come for them, for dirty, rough, uneducated shepherds. They could do
nothing but fall to their knees and worship this God-Who-Came-To-Earth.
And in
bowing, they changed. They bowed before Him as unworthy shepherds, but rose
from their knees with a new identity. They were no longer “just shepherds;” they
were God’s messengers. They had been chosen by Him to spread the good news, and
they would never be the same.
Have you heard the angels’
words: “Unto you a child is born?” Have you bowed to worship him? We bow before
Him as unworthy—just a mom, just a truck driver, just a lawyer—but we rise to
our feet changed. We are given a new identity: God’s messengers. Have you
recognized that He came for you? The invitation to come and see still stands.
When we bow before Him, we are never the same.
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