Luke 1:5, 8-9, 11-12 CEB

[5] During the rule of King Herod of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah...

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[8] One day Zechariah was serving as a priest before God because his priestly division was on duty.

Following the customs of priestly service, he was chosen by lottery to go into the Lord's sanctuary and burn incense.

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[11] An angel from the Lord appeared to him, standing to the right of the altar of incense. [12] When Zechariah saw the angel, he was startled and overcome with fear.

Luke 1:5, 8-9, 11-12 CEB

Zechariah was from in intergenerational line of priests.

Being a priest is a vocation he was born into.

This day it was his team's turn to serve in the temple and burn the incense, and from his team, on this day, he was chosen by chance to do something he may have done hundreds of times.

But this day something unusual happened, something unexpected, unpredictable, supernatural, and frightening.

Zechariah was just "going to church" in a very ordinary, random way, yet God was orchestrating something from off the "stage". The supernatural was pushing into the "normal", the "everyday".

This was an extraordinary event that indicated the pending arrival of an extraordinary person, Jesus.

And only one person experienced it. 

You can't miss an angel, but will we leave room in our ordinary, for the supernatural to be heard, noticed, seen?

#advent

#Christmas

#unexpected 

#supernatural