5 Things to Notice When You Read Luke's Christmas Story This Year

Cold-Case Christianity
14 Dec
This Christmas season, Luke 2 will probably be the most-read passage of Scripture. It tells of Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem, the birth of Jesus, the angels’ announcement to the shepherds in the fields, the shepherds’ visit to the stable, and even Jesus’ childhood. This chapter of the New Testament tells the age-old Christmas story, but it’s also extremely relevant to our lives today in practical ways.
Here are five takeaways from Luke 2 that we can apply to our lives today:
Even Jesus Wasn’t above Simple Circumstances
When you think of kings, you think of crowns and thrones and palaces...not stables full of smelly farm animals and a feeding trough as a bed for a newborn baby. Yet Jesus, King of Kings though He is, came into the world in a remarkably simple, lowly, and unassuming way. His birth was the furthest thing from a King’s welcome. Few of us are acquainted with the ways of royalty, and it’s hard to even fathom how elaborate and exquisite that lifestyle is. Many more of us, however, can describe in detail what a barn is like. I find this part of the Christmas story so beautiful-- Jesus didn’t come to earth as a mighty, majestic King who would be intimidating and untouchable. He instead came as an innocent, needy, dependent baby born to parents who were poor and as simply normal as could be. Everything about the very beginnings of his life on earth was humble and unassuming, giving us a Savior we can easily relate to and understand, not one who is distant or on a lofty throne. This is such a comforting truth-- we don’t have to have prestigious job titles or well-stocked bank accounts or fame to be used by God, because not even His Son required those things.

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