This is that moment of excitement where all creation is looking forward, apprehensive
maybe, excited, a little scared about the coming of the Messiah and the beginning of
the redemption and all creation groans for the true redemption of God which is yet to
come.
I'm thinking today of Luke chapter 2.
It says in verse 15 of Luke chapter 2, when the angels had departed from them into heaven,
the shepherds began saying to one another, let's go straight to Bethlehem then and see
this thing that has happened which the Lord has made known to us.
A couple of things I love about this verse.
The first one is the certainty.
After having seen the angels singing in the sky and declaring the birth of a savior and
even the pronouncement of a sign that it would be found as a babe wrapped in a manger in
swaddling cloth, wrapped in swaddling cloth in a manger, there you go, even though they
had heard all that, they said, let us go and see this thing that has happened that the
Lord has made known to us.
And that's a pretty significant statement that they believed what they had been told
and of course they would because it was told in such a flashy way but they said, let us
go and see.
On Christmas Eve every year, we have a Christmas Eve service at New Heights and it's been faithful
every year for over two decades and we're doing it again at seven o'clock on Christmas
Eve and you're welcome to come and join us and we always close out with candlelight.
One of the things that just has amazed me is just the reverence and the excitement in
the room as we recognize that only God could do this.
Get in your local church and see what God is doing.
He is busy in our day making an impact.
The mass church in Portmuseotape.