Luke 2:20 NLT

[20] The shepherds went back to their flocks, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen. It was just as the angel had told them.

Luke 2:20 NLT

What do you notice in verse 20?

Can you see the excited shepherds praising God?

Can you hear them going over the details that the Angel had told them and what they saw and experienced?

Did you notice that after this massive spiritual, physical, and emotional experience they had just shared, they went back to work.

Back to the ordinary.

Back to the everyday.

And our God is no less there in the everyday. 

While the curtain between heaven and earth had been pulled back to let the angels thru announcing Jesus' arrival, he was also just another baby born that day, in a very ordinary village, and the witnesses went back to their very ordinary work.

But something had shifted.

God is now with us in a different way.

The author of the story has entered in to the story, written himself in.

Just as the shepherds ordinary everyday work was waiting for them to return to, they were not the same.

Hope is here. 

Emmanuel, God is With us.

And that changes everything.

Our ordinary, our everday may be the same, but God is With us...

#Christmas 

#redemptivestrands 

#with

#hopeishere