Miracles in the Margins: The Shepherds (Christmas 2025 - Part 2)

Thank you, Pastor Drew for asking me to pinch hint.

Yes, I do have had a few Christmas sermons.

So but I did spend a lot of time yesterday praying and preparing

for this. So we're talking about miracle

in the margins, the shepherds today and we're in Luke chapter

Luke 2:8–20

2 verses 8 through 20. You know, the last six months

I've had the opportunity to be a lot of different pulpits and a

lot of different places, but it's good to preach right from

this pulpit as well. Luke chapter 2, Let's stand

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together as we as I read and you follow along.

Luke chapter 2, verse 8 through 14.

Luke 2:8–14

And in the same reason there were shepherds out in the field

keeping watch over their flock by night.

And the Angel of and glory and Angel said that fear not, for

the good news of great joy it will be for all the people is

born this day in the city of David, a Savior who is Christ

the Lord. And this will be a sign for you.

You will find a baby wrapped in swallowing claws and lying in a

Manger. And suddenly there was with the

Angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and

saying, Glory to God in the highest and on earth, peace

among those with whom he is pleased.

And when the angels went away from them into heaven, the

shepherds said to one another, Let us go over to Bethlehem and

see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has

made known to us. Verse 16.

And they went with haste, and they found Mary and Joseph and

the baby lying in a Manger. And when they saw it, they made

known the saying that had been told them concerning this child.

And all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them.

Verse 19 is very interesting. But Mary treasured up all these

things, pondering them in their heart.

And the shepherd's return, glorifying and praising God for

all they had heard and seen as it had been told them.

You may be seated, and May God, it is blessing at the reading of

His word. And let's pray together.

Father, we come to you in the second week of Advent, and we

pause. And we just thank you for this

beautiful season. May we see Jesus in a fresh and

new way as we go through for some of us, eighty 7550 years of

Christmas seasons. May it not be stale.

May it be fresh to us. And Lord, help us, help us to

make our hearts and our lives available for you to have room

in our hearts to do what you want and Your will and Your way.

Help us to be open to what You have for us today as we open

Your word and be able to receive it.

We pray and ask in Jesus name, Amen.

Well, God loves to put the extra into the word ordinary who?

Who the world thinks are significant or don't fit into

the mold of extraordinary. God grins and continually proves

the world wrong. There are no little people in

God's eyes. He loves to take the underdog

and use him or her for His glory.

Think on these verses. In first Corinthians chapter one

verse 26, Paul said For consider your calling brothers.

Not many of you were wise according to worldly standards.

Not many were powerful. Not many were of noble birth.

But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise.

God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong.

God chose what is low and despising the world, even things

that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that

no human being might boast in the presence of God.

It's counterintuitive how God does His Kingdom work.

God is continually looking for the available humble hearts, not

people with tremendous human ability.

Think about some of the people that God used in the Bible.

I was reading for my devotions this week in Genesis where it

talked about Hagar. And of course Hagar and Abraham

had a son, Ishmael. And we know that Sarah begin to

despise Hagar because she was waiting for the promised one and

she couldn't have it. But she forced the situation

with Abraham and Hagar and Ishmael was born.

And so Sarah gets Hagar and Ishmael to leave, to go away.

And they go out into the desert and their water dries up and

she's weeping in the little baby is a distance of way.

And God comes and provides water for her, meets her at her point

of need. And she's uses the word God who

sees God saw me and saw my need. Rahab was a Gentile prostitute

who decided to place her faith in the God of Israel.

God then used her to help the Israelites capture Jericho.

She later became part of the lineage of Jesus.

Read Matthew 1, you'll see her name in there.

Gideon was an insignificant man from the humble tribe of

Manasseh and yet God used him to defeat the Midianite army with

300 men. He eventually became a judge of

the nation of Israel. And we know David, he was young,

he was a very insignificant shepherd boy.

When Samuel came and talked to Jesse, went through all the

brothers to see who he thought God wanted to be the next king

and ended up being the youngest 1 David, who was out in the

field taking care of the sheep. He would go on to slay Goliath

and rule as king of Israel and had a significant role in the

lineage of Jesus. Think about those disciples.

They were just young men, maybe late in their teenage years,

early 20s, seemingly insignificant.

They were a ragtag group of ordinary men.

And yet God used them to share his love with others and

ultimately they changed the course of history.

And the other one that's really amazing is the Apostle Paul, who

referred to himself in First Timothy 115 as the worst, the

chiefest of all sinners. He went on to proclaim the

gospel around the ancient world and wrote nearly half of the

books in the New Testament. It's absolutely incredible how

God uses the least of us to accomplish his plans for his

glory. How about you?

Have you ever felt just ordinary?

Have you felt like your days have just been mundane routines?

You feel like you're maybe insignificant sometimes it's so

great. That means you're in the place

where God wants to use you, where you're humble, you're

open, you're faithful, you're doing what He wants, and He may

choose you to do great things. So as we begin, we think about

the story here of the shepherds and the background of the

shepherds. Many of you know you've studied

it or you've heard it and other sermons as well.

They were nomads who lived in caves.

They were, in most cases, social illiterates.

They were mangy. They rarely took showers, so

nobody wanted to be around them. They're removed from human

relationships. I mean, they were the poor of

society and their profession was deemed the lowest of the low.

Can you imagine? They wouldn't even take their

money for taxes? Wow, that's pretty low.

And then you think about the priests wouldn't let them into

the temple in Jerusalem because he considered them ceremonial,

ceremonially unclean. They were Wanderers,

marginalized by the society they lived in.

They lived on the outer edges of civilization.

In fact, Randy Alcorn in his article shepherd status, he said

in Christ day shepherds stood on the bottom rung of the

Palestinian social ladder. They shared the same an enviable

status as tax collectors and dung sweepers.

So they were the most improbable people to have the message of

Christ birth given to them by an Angel.

But nonetheless, the first point on your outline, the shepherds

were at the right place at the right time.

They were in the right place at the right time.

And it says in verse 8 and in the same region, there were

shepherds out in the field keeping watch of their flock by

night. And even though these shepherds

were ignored by society, they were obedient.

They were responsible and caring for their sheep.

We don't know for sure, but it appears it's kind of assumed.

The shepherds may have been faithful followers of the Lord,

but it might be a fair assumption.

And the shepherds were simply fulfilling their

responsibilities. Think about they were doing what

they had been doing for 100 days before.

They were about the business of what they believed was their

purpose in life, to be a successful and profitable

sheepherder. They were out there day and

night looking after the best interests of the sheep they were

tending and taking care of their assets of investment.

The sheep they've been tending were sheep who may eventually be

used for sacrifice in the temple, which was merely 3 miles

away. There was nothing special about

the shepherd's lives and the world.

And that night we're going on as 100 nights before and more than

just before, but just at the right moment in God's timetable.

The unimaginable happened in Galatians 4, it says.

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his

Son, born of a woman under the law, to redeem those who were

under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son

into our hearts, crying ABBA Father, so you're no longer a

slave, but a son. And if a son, then an heir

through God. So you imagine that God sent

Jesus at the precise time on his timetable into the world so that

you and I could be children of God, that we could be heirs with

Christ. What an amazing thought from our

human perspective. We don't know why God sent Jesus

to earth when he did, but he arrived right on time.

God's schedule, God's timing is never, is never.

I don't know what I wrote here. God's timing because he's in a

hurry. He's never late God's time, He's

never hurry in a hurry, but he's never late.

And second Peter 3/8 it says. But do not overlook this one

fact, beloved with the Lord, one day is is 1000 years and 1000

years, as is one day. So God sees the beginning of the

world to the end of the world. God sees the beginning of your

life to the end of your life. He knows what we will be facing,

and He's gone ahead of us to prepare the way for us.

So God doesn't fill us in on what he's about to do in

advance. We have to take it one day at a

time. I look at it like on rolling the

scroll one section at a time, God reveals his plan for our

lives. But we as humans, we want to

know what the future is. We want to know way down the

road, don't we? And Ecclesiastes 311 says God

has given them a desire to know the future.

He does everything just right and on time, but people can

never completely understand what He is doing.

So we have to keep listening to His word, listening to the Holy

Spirit, stay dependent on Him. We must continue to wait and

trust His timing. How many of you struggle with

waiting? I can't raise my hand high

enough. Man.

It seems like I picked. I could go in a store and there

could be 3 lines and I could pick the shortest line, but I'll

be the last one out. It doesn't matter, you know.

And so patience and perseverance are so important as we wait on

God and if we are faithful with our daily responsibilities in

doing what we know God wants us to do, even if we're unnoticed,

there are times that God will take the ordinary and make it

extraordinary when we least expect it.

Dan Dirks is not here today. He was supposed to be here.

I don't think he's here, but I was sitting in his room at the

Lutheran home on Monday and I was recounting about he was

telling me stories about all the people he had shared Christ with

at Argo. Argo Corners.

How many been to Argo Corners? Very few people know that place

exists, but Dan is the missionary.

He is the missionary when he walks in.

They know what he believes and he shares the gospel and so he

just does the normal routine things in his life.

And I believe when you do that, God puts the extraordinary end

to your life. So as a result, the shepherd's

faithfulness to the Lord God chose to reveal his most

precious revelation to the lowliest of mankind, the

shepherds. And it's humbling to think that

the King of Kings grand entrance was in a stable, not in with the

King of Kings or in great shepherds.

I'm sorry, not with religious leaders or with the kings or

governmental authorities, but he was there for the humblest

people in society. And so are we faithfully

fulfilling the duties and the roles of our lives.

The application here is be faithful.

Be faithful in the normal rhythms of your life.

And if you do that, God will do some amazing things and bless

you for your faithfulness. Only eternity will reveal how

our faithfulness has impacted other people.

Well, the second point on your outline is the shepherds

received. They received the heavenly

message. It was given to them and they

received it. Look at verse 9 of Luke 2.

And an Angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory

of the Lord shown around them, and they were filled with great

fear. And the Angel said to them, Fear

not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will

be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in

the city of David, a Savior who is Christ the Lord, the Messiah.

And this will be a sign for you. You will find a baby wrapped in

swaddling claws and lying in a Manger.

And suddenly there was with the Angel a multitude of the

heavenly host praising God and saying Glory to God in the

highest and on earth, peace among those with whom he is well

pleased. Notice how the shepherds

received the message from God with great fear, with reverence,

with awe, with humility, and also with great distress.

It came from an Angel. An Angel literally means a

messenger from God. And you think about where he

says in this, in this verse, verse 10, the Angel says, I

bring this message came from the very throne room of God, from

God himself. And the Angel said, fear not,

listen to what I'm about to say. What do you and I do when God

speaks to us? How do we respond?

Do we take time to ask God for things and then wait for him to

respond? Are we listening for His voice

throughout our daily lives? How good are we at active

listening skills with God and people?

James 119 said this. Know this my beloved brothers,

let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to

anger. You've heard me talk about this

verse before. I think that God has a sense of

humor. He gives us 2 ears and one

mouth, right? He's emphasizing the listening.

We need to be good listeners. We need to be active listeners.

And how do we do that when it comes to God?

It's through meditating on God's Word.

And I've been listening to Carl Clawson from Moody Radio, and

he's talked about this word, meditation.

I never heard this before, but it not only means to continue to

bring it up in your mind, but it means to say it back to God, to

put it on your lips, to repeat it to God.

Meditate. Meditate on God's word.

We also can listen through prayer.

You know, I spent a lot of time talking about adoration,

confession, Thanksgiving, supplication.

But do I take time to sit and listen to what God wants to say

to me through the Holy Spirit? Do we take time to ask God to

reveal through His Holy Spirit an affirmation of a decision

that we need to make, or wait till we have peace in our heart,

or obeying God when He says no? Or wait and just do the things

that are in front of us do? Are we good listeners waiting

for God's still small voice? How about when it comes to

people's interactions with us, either directly when we go to

someone and we ask for advice or we want counsel, or indirectly

when we have a conversation and God brings something into your

heart and your mind through that conversation?

Are you listening for what God wants to say to you?

Toby Mac has a great song that I love.

It's called Edge of My Seat. Are we leaning forward in our

seats, figuratively speaking, when God or godly counsel is

coming our way? Or two, we try to do it on our

own, and if all else fails, then we go to God.

President Franklin D Roosevelt got tired of smiling that big

smile and saying the usual things at those White House

receptions. So one evening he decided to see

whether anyone was paying attention to what he was saying.

So as each person came up to him with an extended hand, he

flashed his big smile. And he says, I murdered my

grandmother this morning. And people would automatically

respond with comments. Well, that's just lovely.

Nobody listened to what he was saying except one foreign

diplomat. When the president said I

murdered my grandmother this morning, the diplomat responded

softly. I'm sure she had it coming to

her. The problem today is not the God

is not speaking, but rather we are not listening for him.

It's not the Lord who is not speaking, but it's us who are

not hearing what he has to say. So our application is be

receptive to God's voice, be in God's word, pray, ask the Holy

Spirit to put impressions on your heart.

Do you and I take the time to pray 1st and then go out and do?

Do you and I take the time to listen for God's still small

voice as we wait on him and His timing?

Good things to reflect on for that point.

And then thirdly, the shepherd's belief is measured by their

reaction. The shepherd's belief is

measured by their reaction. Look at verse 15 of chapter 2

and Luke, when the angels went away from them into heaven, the

shepherd said to one another, Let us go over to Bethlehem and

see this thing that has happened which the Lord has made known to

us. The shepherds took what they

believed and put it into action. Your actions reveal what you

believe and what faith you have. Let me say that again.

Your actions reveal what you believe and what faith you have,

James. 1A familiar section of Scripture to most of us, James

says in verse 22. But be doers of the word and not

hearers only deceiving yourselves.

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he's like a

man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror.

Frazee looks at himself and goes away, and it once forgets what

he was like. But the one who looks into the

perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer

who forgets, but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his

doing. When my I was growing up I was

just a young guy and my grandfather was electrical

engineer for union switch and signal.

He used to design signals that you would see that we see on the

side of the railroad tracks for all over the country.

And I remember him telling me one day that he got up and took

a shower and looked in the mirror and shaved and everything

and put on his clothes and he went to work.

And then he realized he spun his pajamas on under his clothes.

He looked in the mirror, but he didn't do anything to adapt or

change. He just put his clothes over his

pajamas. When you and I, when we look

into the law of liberty, the Word of God, we're to see what

things are out of line in our life and where to measure up to

the Word of God, to adjust, to adapt, to make changes.

That's what being a doer of the Word is all about.

Well, the shepherds acted on their faith.

There's an illustration someone shared about a wooden well

bucket that he came upon, and he thought it was worthless because

it was sitting next to a barn in the sun.

They'd been there for years. It was unused for a long time.

He could see daylight between the wooden slats of the bucket.

Certainly this thing couldn't hold water again, could it?

But an older man who was wise tied the bucket to the well rope

and let it drop into the water below.

In a couple days they came back and turned the crank to draw the

bucket up and it was full of clear cool well water and was

not leaking a drop. The water had rehydrated the

wooden slats until they fit together as originally designed

and the bucket was useful again. God wants to use you, even if

you think maybe you're like that bucket, you're useless, that you

don't have anything to offer to God, that you've done these

things and God can't take and make a new bucket and re

establish it and use it for His glory.

The shepherds acted on their faith.

They saw how little they were in society, but they went out and

did what God told them to do. The shepherds went and they

observed that baby first hand. They hiked into town.

I assume they left their sheep behind them.

They were led by the supernatural after God invaded

their ordinary lives. The application?

Be willing to act on what God tells you to do.

Be willing to act when God tells you what to do.

Be obedience is doing immediately what you're asked to

do with the right heart attitude.

That's something I've always worked at in my life.

It's a challenge, but being willing to do immediately what

you're told to do with the right heart attitude.

And remember that God is at work all around you.

Just ask Him how you can help join Him in the Kingdom.

Work right where you work, or live with your neighbors.

And then the shepherds recognized the Christ, and the

shepherds recognized the Christ. Look at verse 16.

And they went with haste, and they found Mary and Joseph and

the baby lying in a Manger. The shepherds saw the Savior

with their own eyes. They saw along with Mary and

Joseph, the very face of God. I like that song, You know, Mark

Lowry talks about Mary. Did you know?

And in it she's it says you kissed the very face of God.

Can you imagine that in Isaiah 9 it says in verse 2, the people

who walked in darkness have seen a great light, those who dwelt

in the land of deep darkness, On them His light has shown in

verse 6. For to us a child is born, to us

a son is given, and the government shall be upon his

shoulder, and his name shall be called.

Wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting Father, the Prince

of Peace. The shepherd saw a human baby.

He was God, but he was mad. And so as a baby he cried when

he was hungry. Mary and Joseph had to change

his diapers. I bet when he was a young boy he

ran and skinned his knee. He had to go to school.

He did all the things that a normal boy would do in that

society. He was much a man as he was God.

In Philippians 2 it says who though he, God Jesus was in the

form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be

grasped, but emptied himself by taking the form of a servant.

Being born in the likeness of man and being found in human

form, he humbled himself, but become obedient to the point of

death, even death on a cross. Therefore, God has highly

exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every

name. Jesus was 100% God, 100% man.

The God man was born a virgin. In our Adult Connect group,

we've been looking at different heresies, different false

teachings. One of them we talked about was

Gnosticism, and the early Gnostics tried to say that

anything material, even your body, was evil.

So Jesus could not have had a human body.

But Jesus had to be human because he had to be the

substitute for our sin to take our place on the cross.

So debunking the Gnostics thoughts.

So our application be willing this Christmas to reflect on who

the child in the Manger is. Take some time to sit and

reflect on all the attributes of Christ of God of God in in

Christ. You know they're one in the same

and who they are. I think it's great to ponder

that, especially this Christmas season.

So if you have a biblical view of who Christ is, the way you

view yourself in Christ will be accurate and give you confidence

in following Him. The last point today is the

shepherds responded to what they witnessed.

The shepherds responded to what they witnessed.

Let's finish out the chapter, chapter 2, verse 17 through 20.

And when the shepherds saw the baby Jesus, they made known to

say that he had been told them concerning the child, and all

who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them.

But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her

heart. And the shepherds returned,

glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen as

it had been told them, the shepherds were changed in an

instant. They were filled with joy.

I don't know about you, but I've never gotten over the night that

I became a believer in Christ. Have you ever gotten over your

salvation? I hope not because it literally

transformed my life. I was a 14 year old, very

rebellious child toward my parents.

I had a foul mouth and when I became a believer in Christ, I

began to read this word like it was going out of style.

I began sharing Christ with my friends.

The foul language cleaned up pretty quickly.

The Holy Spirit convicted me of that and it transformed my life

and I can look back. And God reached down and saved

our family. There was nobody in our

immediate family who was a Christian until my dad became a

believer in Christ. And so I never get over that.

And I never get tired of spreading the good news of what

it is of the gospel as I have opportunities.

Since I've been retired, I've had time to share Christ in the

gospel with large crowds and individuals.

It's what gets me up in the morning.

And I ask God each morning give me an opportunity to have a

spiritual conversation with someone.

And most of the days he answers that prayer.

But these shepherds, they spread the good news.

They couldn't wait to tell everyone what God had done in

their midst. They returned to their sheep.

It says rejoicing and worshiping.

It says glorifying and praising God.

They were filled with awe. How could this happen?

How could this be in such an obscure place?

The natural response to God revealing himself to you is

worship is worship. Several years ago I read an

article about Queen Mary, who made a practice to visit

Scotland every year. She was loved by the people

there and she often mingled with them freely, even stepping away

from her protective escort. One afternoon she was just

walking down the street in Scotland with some children.

Her escort wasn't around and she went out further than she

planned and the clouds darkened and she saw a storm coming in

the horizon. So she went to this house and

knocked on the door and she asked this lady for an umbrella

and she says I'll bring it back tomorrow.

Well, the woman didn't recognize the queen and was reluctant to

give the stranger her best umbrella, so she handed her one

that she intended to throw away. The fabric was torn in several

places and one of the ribs was broken.

The next day, another knock was heard at the door, and when the

lady opened it, she was greeted by a royal guard who was holding

in his hand her old tattered umbrella.

The queen sent me, he said. She asked me to thank you for

loaning her this. And for a moment, the woman was

stunned. Then she burst into tears.

Oh, what an opportunity I missed.

I didn't give the queen my very best.

Are we giving God our very best when we come to worship, to come

and worship Him? Not the leftovers, but to come

prepared and giving of ourselves.

These shepherds went away glorifying and praising God

because they had seen the King of kings and the Lord of Lords.

We worship and then we share what we experienced in worship

and the joy of being with our Creator, the love of our lives.

We see a pattern through these verses that we should emulate.

God was doing a work in the midst of the people of

Bethlehem. God revealed the Messiah first

to the humblest of people in society at that time, the

shepherds. They acted on faith-based on

what was told to them. The shepherds went out and they

found the baby in a Manger. They worshipped and found true

joy. And then what did they do?

Because that joy overflowed. They went out and told as many

as we believe and listen that Jesus had come and he was the

Messiah. The application is be passionate

in the spreading of the good news of Christmas.

Be passionate in sharing and spreading the good news of

Christmas. May you and I be so filled with

joy that it overflows into the lives of others by how we live

and by what we say. Here's our key thought,

Something to take away. May we always be reminded that

God chooses people not by their ability, but by their

availability. Not by their ability, but by

their availability. Are we making ourselves

available to God, giving him a blank check on our life, to

saying, Lord, whatever you want, fill me with your spirit and

help me to do what you want me to do?

There's a few questions there to ponder for you this week.

I hope you'll think about those. But I want to close with this

illustration. The late Peter Marshall was an

eloquent preacher, and for several years he was the

chaplain of the United States Senate.

He loved to tell this one story called the Keeper of the Spring,

a quiet forest dweller who lived to himself, who lived high above

an Austrian village along the eastern slopes of the Alps.

The old gentleman. He'd been hired many years ago

by a young town council to clear away the debris from the pools

of water up on the top of the mountain where the crevices

were. But they fed into the lovely

spring down in their town, and so with faithful, silent

regularity, he patrolled the hills and removed the leaves and

branches and wiped away the silt that would otherwise choke and

contaminate the fresh flow of water.

By and by the village became a popular attraction for

vacationers. Graceful Swans floated along the

crystal clear spring. The mill wheels of various

businesses located near the water turned day and night.

Farm lands were naturally irrigated, making this view from

restaurants picturesque beyond description.

Years passed and one evening the town council met for their semi

annual meeting and someone looked over the budget and they

saw this budget line item for this gentleman who is lipping up

on the top of the hill. And nobody hardly ever saw him

and nobody knew what he did and so he got the council to vote

and take out his salary. For several weeks nothing

changed. By early autumn the trees began

to shed their leaves. Small branches snapped off and

fell into the pools, hindering the rushing flow of sparkling

water. One afternoon someone noticed a

slight yellowish brown tint in the spring.

A couple days later that water was much darker, and within

another week a slimy film covered sections of the water

along the banks and a foul odor was soon detected.

The mill wheels move more slowly and some ground to a halt.

Swans left, as did the tourists, and clammy fingers of disease

and sickness reach deep into the village.

They caught a quick business meeting with the City Council

and realizing their gross Aaron judgment, they hired back this

lowly little man up at the top of the mountain.

And all of a sudden, within a few weeks, the river of life

began to clear up, the wheels start to turn, and new life

returned to the hamlet and the Alps once again.

What the keeper of the spring meant to the village, Christmas

means to the world. Jesus called you and I to be

salt, which is to say that we're to be the preservers of what is

good and true in the world. Just like the old man in the

mountain, we are called to serve.

And in a very real sense, the well-being of the whole world is

dependent upon us. We do make a difference.

There are no little people, There are no little jobs.

There are no little responsibilities.

Everything we do is significant and interlinks with what others

do. That's why the story of that

great Christmas movie, It's a Wonderful Life.

It's so important. Each life touches another life.

Let us share the good news, as the shepherds did so very long

ago, to people in our sphere of influence.

This Christmas season, let's pray.

Father, as we come before you, Lord, help us to ponder the

little baby in the Manger that we celebrate during the season

and think about all the things of who he is and what he does,

but ultimately going to the cross for us.

So we asked Lord that you would work in our lives.

Help us make ourselves available available to You Lord, so that

we can be used as your servant and however you deem possible.

And we pray and ask in Jesus name, Amen.