It seems to me that the theme running throughout Luke 2 is Jesus’ humble beginnings. The night he was born, his family was away from home and couldn’t even find a place in an inn. And then the angels made their appearance—but not to the political rulers or religious rulers or other prestigious folks of the day; no, they delivered the good news of Jesus’ birth to a bunch of shepherds. And such began the life of the son of God, the infant who would grow up to become our Savior—lying in a manger surrounded by a crowd of shepherds, ordinary people who listened to a message from God and left behind everything they had been doing just to see this humble infant, a Savior.
I find it amazing that God chose to send his son in such a humble, lowly, human way. He could have sent Jesus as a powerful ruler with an army of angels, liberating Israel from their suffering. But that was not God’s plan. He came just as the rest of us do, a normal human being, an infant with humble beginnings—yet even then, ordinary people got an extraordinary message from God and left everything to seek him.
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