I often wonder what it would be like if God appeared to me.
“Surely I would be excited,” I thought to myself.
Excited is probably true, but I guess terrified would also be true.
For those of us with jobs, imagine being at your job, perhaps at your desk, in a car, or doing something that you often do with your time.
Suddenly, God appears! Even the most devout Christians amongst us would be fearful at first!
The same is true for the shepherds in these verses, and it makes us wonder why God chose to appear to shepherds when He could have appeared to anyone.
Consider the story of the birth of Jesus: his parents, the location, the time.
Christ had the most humble beginnings.
It was a choice by God so that everyone could identify with the story.
He chooses to appear to shepherds for the same reason: anyone can put themselves in the shepherds’ situation and understand it.
Also, if God had appeared to a king or someone powerful, the message would have changed and spread differently.
Christ was born in the humblest state so that the message would spread to those who needed it the most first, those who would believe it the most first, and those who would spread this joy to the entire world first.
It was an intricate plan by God that has stood the test of time.
Amen 🙏 🙏
