 Home | Recent News | Sterling | Remembering 01 Dec 2006 Remembering the season’s reasonOn that Christmas night so long ago a group of shepherds sat huddled around their campfire trying to keep warm. They were talking about all that had happened that day as they tended their master’s sheep. Far down below in the valley they saw the lights of Bethlehem twinkling like the stars in the sky above. Suddenly, an angel appeared and brought to them a message that their people had been waiting for centuries to hear, the Messiah has come. The words that the angel spoke were recorded this way: “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.” The shepherds were amazed at what they had just been told and so they hurried off to see if what they had been told was really correct. They found out that indeed a baby had been born in a stable and was wrapped in swaddling clothes just as the angels had said. They returned singing praise to God for all they had seen and heard. I wonder how many of us realize that the same words that the angels spoke to the shepherds apply to us today more than 2,000 years later. For unto you is born a Savior. He came and was born not for the whole world, but just for you. He would have come if you had been the only one who needed a Savior. Come to the stable. Kneel at the manger. See what the shepherds saw. For unto you is born a Savior who is Christ the Lord. May you come to know the fullness of the Christmas season this year.
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