The Messiah is Born! (Luke 2:8-20) Living Life 12/24/2025 Daily Devotional Bible Study
Merry Christmas Eve to you all and I pray that God's blessing be upon you.
When my own daughter was born This is now over nineteen years ago I remember literally grabbing my phone and being so excited about it that I just started typing up a text and then I copied the text and I just started scrolling through names of people on my phone that of people I knew who would want to know that my daughter was finally born
and I was so happy that it didn't matter if their relationship was close or if it was really close they were going to get my text so that I could have multiple people celebrating with me about something so precious to me namely the birth of my daughter.
And when my son was born I did the same thing.
I was just so overjoyed to be a father to see my children be brought into the world to now be raised by me and my wife and hopefully to become the wonderful young adults that they are today.
You might wonder who would God share the birth of his son to?
I mean if you think about it this is also a wonderful event for God not just because of something as simple as a birth but what this birth signified the salvation of all humanity This is the birth of Jesus.
Would God like me scroll through his proverbial phone in order to let special people, his friends know of the birth of his son?
And the answer is yes. Let's look at Luke Chapter eight verses eight through 2 to see what God does.
Luke Chapter two verses eight to twenty.
And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby keeping watch over their flocks.
At night an angel of the Lord appeared to them and the glory of the Lord shone around them and they were terrified but the angels said to them do not be afraid I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.
Today. In the town of David a savior has been born to you.
He is Messiah the Lord This will be a sign to you.
You will find a baby wrapped on clothes and lying in a manger.
Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel praising God and saying glory to God in the highest heaven and on Earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.
Then the angels had left then and gone into heaven.
The shepherds said to one another let's go to Bethlaham and see this thing that has happened which the Lord has told us about.
So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph and the baby
who was lying on the manger.
When they had seen him they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child and all who heard it were amazed at that.
The shepherds said to them but Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.
The shepherds returned glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen which were just as they had been told.
So in Luke Chapter two verses eight through 20 we see who God shares his special message with.
Now he didn't have a phone and he didn't go through and start texting a bunch of people exactly what happened but what he did have was his messengers to declare his message namely his angels and who did he share it with his friends who are his friends?
It was those shepherd those good men out at night abiding in their field.
Well how do we know that they were good men?
This is shared to us in Luke Chapter two verses eight through 12 you see these shepherds were living outdoors while they were keeping watch over their flock.
Why does that matter? Because these shepherds wanted their flocks to be well fed and they know it takes time in order to bring the sheep into the pen and then out again into the fields and they didn't want to waste that time
so they decided to get together a bunch of them create a little bit of a fire and then take turns keeping watched to protect the sheep from predators and band together with other good shepherds in order to make sure that all the various flocks are safe.
These are people who are genuine and care for their flocks and we also know that they were good men because of their response to the angels.
The Bible says that when the Angel of the Lord appeared and announced to them these shepherds were very afraid.
Literally it says that they were frightened a great fright.
How else do you describe someone who responds properly to the glory of God?
You see if you stand either in defiance or even in acceptance of God's glory and don't have any ounce of fear you don't truly understand the power and the glory of God.
The proper reaction is to recognize that at any moment that glory could
and even should strike us down for our own sin and so they were properly afraid.
That's why the angel had to begin with.
Do not be afraid stop your fear I've got great news.
We also know that these are blessed men because how many people in scripture could be able to see this multitude of heavenly hosts praising God and in unison crying out glory to God in the highest and on earth peace and goodwill towards men.
There's almost nobody in scripture that has seen a sight like that and that's according to chapter two verse thirteen through fourteen.
We also see that these are men of faith.
Why? Because the moment that they had heard the prediction by the angels that the child was born they said the moment the angels had left hey let us go to Bethlaham and see this thing according to Luke chapter two verse fifteen.
So they hurried off
they hurried off and they found Mary and they found Joseph and they found the child exactly as described by the angel as lying in a manger.
These are men who are literally after God's own heart.
How can I say that? We look at verses seventeen through twenty the moment they had seen the child and had experienced all these things what did they do?
They spread the word concerning the child of what had been told to them according to verse seventeen
and the shepherds then returned themselves to their own flocks glorifying and praising God for all that they had seen and heard.
And this is according to 2, these are God's friends people who are good who are blessed who are filled with faith and who will go and share God's message that wonderful message of his salvation to anyone and everyone who might hear you might say well these are not the men that I would have told.
No kidding God often shares his message with people that you don't expect.
Just think of the comedian by the name of Jeff Allen Jeff Allen when he was converted to faith in Christ Do you know what won his heart?
It was a book of Ecclesiastes.
In his testimony that you could find on YouTube he shares his story of conversion how he had kind of the American dream.
He had the house he was in debt but he had a wife he had two children
He was a comedian he had a little bit of money it wasn't a lot but he tried the alcohol and he tried the drugs and he he he tried the being sober and nothing seemed to matter.
Everything he tried just seemed empty.
And his wife finally told him that you'd better get your life in order or we're done we're going to leave.
And she in fact told him that he had a summer
a summer to be able to be able to figure things out.
She was going away with the children to her father's house.
He wasn't invited he needed to stay and figure his life out.
And someone had happened to sign him up for a Bible exposition program and he had all of these tapes of of this brilliant pastor in Texas explaining the Bible.
And he just so happened to pick up the book of Ecclesiastes
and he put it into his tape recorder and he started listening to it and it began with vanity vanity all is vain and he said to himself that's it that's what I feel nothing seems to have any value.
And as he listened more and more to the exposition of this book it touched his soul and he was prepared to receive Christ as his savior because he found only obedience to God could bring meaning to life at all.
And he shares in his testimony that he wanted to pick up his Bible and run outside of his door and say have you read this book do you know what's in this book?
The answer to all of our problems is here it's in here.
That's the type of unexpected conversion that people can have once they receive God's message and God loves to share it with those who will then turn around and share it with somebody else.
But you might say why not someone of power and influence why not a king or a wiseeman or someone with authority who might be more persuasive?
And the answer is because those people in power often are corrupted.
Think of Hert at that time he just wanted to hold onto his own power.
He didn't care about a child he would worry that that child would steal his authority.
And those in power and authority are often the people who are more willing to be corrupted by power.
And authority
not only does it corrupt, but power draws the corruptible.
No God wants good people who will be examples of his message not just influential regarding it because God often qualifies the called not calls the qualified.
So he chose the shepherds to be his vessels to carry his message of the salvation of his son because those shepherds were his friends would you be that friend?
If God brought his message of salvation to day
as the song says, if you receive Christ as your saviour, you are a friend of God.
May we pray to our God, our friend and give us courage to be able to share his message of salvation to all around us who need to hear it Let's pray Lord You gave us a message a message worthy of being shared a message that the shepherd saw that they needed to share.
Lord, may we be like that friend of God that you desire
a good person a person worthy of being blessed a person who is filled with faith and one after your heart to spread your message far and wide that message of salvation that we now know and have ourselves.
So Lord, may we carry the message of this Jesus who was born over two thousand years ago into this world to be the savior and may we take that message of salvation to all who need to hear it?
We thank you that we can bear it just like the shepherds.
May you bless our time of sharing it in Jesus name we pray amen.
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