Today's reading from the LEC Family Advent Devotional is Luke 2:8-20 -- the story of the Shepherds keeping watch over their sheep.
Who can ever forget the iconic scene from "A Charlie Brown Christmas" where Linus shares the true meaning of Christmas and quotes the story of the shepherds. The shepherds play a unique part in the Christmas story. For you see, the hills of Bethlehem were the only place in Israel that shepherds could tend their flocks. And these shepherds were tending Passover lambs that would be used for sacrifice later that year. And now they are about to visit this baby who has just been born who will one day be their sacrificial Lamb. Shepherds were unwanted, left out, pushed aside, poor, and a part of the lowest rung of society. They smelled bad, slept on the ground with their sheep, and didn't live in big cities. Perhaps the reason that God chose the shepherds as the first evangelists was to let us know that Jesus came for us. We are not too low, insignificant, or unimportant for God to love us, search for us, find us, and bring us home.
"Hurry, Shepherds, Run" by Douglas Wagner
Today's Advent Photo of the Day
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Today's devotional suggest that we share the good news of Jesus with a friend by sharing a candy cane -- remembering that the white represents the purity of Christ, the stripes are for His sacrifice, and the color red for His blood.
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