Contemplative Bible Reading

Luke 2:17 (New Living Translation)

After seeing him, the shepherds told everyone what had happened and what the angel had said to them about this child.

The Messiah had been born in a stable and lay in a manger. Sheep herders, who were supposed to be working but had abandoned their jobs, were telling everyone what they saw. They told everyone what the angel told them.

Let’s pause here a moment. Sheep herders claimed that an angel visited them out in the middle of nowhere and told them about the long-promised Messiah. Yeah. Right. Sure. Been in the fields a bit too long, have ya’?

The story was crazy. Nevertheless, it happened. An angel appeared and told them about a stable in town. The sheep herders went there and saw it just as the angel had said. They were not nuts. It was all true.

They had to tell everyone—no matter how crazy the story sounded.

Here we are today. We simply have to tell everyone about how the Son of God lived on earth and allowed himself to be executed so that our sins would be wiped out and… sounds pretty crazy on the face of it, huh? Like the sheep herders, sometimes ya’ just gotta’ tell everyone.

We have to tell everyone—no matter how crazy the story sounds.