Tuesday, Christmas Day, December 25, 2012
The Infancy and Childhood Narrative – Luke 1:5-2:52
God as Promise
From the HARPERCOLLINS BIBLE COMMENTARY: “To speak of God keeping promises is to be reminded that the central characters in Luke-Acts is God. Some Christian writings are so Christocentric that in reading them one tends to forget what Luke does not forget: the story of salvation is God’s story. God led Israel; God inspired prophets; God sent John the Baptist; God sent Jesus; God raised up Jesus; and God sends the Holy Spirit. God is at work through persons, nations, political leaders, laws and institutions. Since God continues to lead and to work the divine purpose, Luke neither longs for nor looks for nor calls the church back to a golden age of Jesus or of the early church, but shows that each time and place has its own appropriateness in the plan of God”. (Mays 928)
On this Christmas Day as we celebrate the arrival of God’s visible sign of promise in our midst . . .
Let us remember to thank God for all that we have, for all that we wish to be and for all that we are.
Let us praise God for all that we hope, all that we believe and for all that we find the courage to do in the Spirit.
Let us continue to follow where God leads, let us continue to do as God asks, and let us continue to work the divine purpose.
Mays, James L., ed. HARPERCOLLINS BIBLE COMMENTARY. New York, New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1988. 928. Print.
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