And the GOOD Shepherd.
Luke 2: 17 & 18
I've made note of where
shepherds stood in the
social hierarchy of their time.
So todays reading has me scratching my head a bit.
They went out and told of what
they had seen and heard
and apparently people believed them.
That just seems incongruent with what I
would expect would happen.
I would think they would have been dismissed.
But they weren't.
And then I think of all the lofty titles given to
Jesus.
Christ.
Immanuel.
Savior.
Redeemer.
Lord of Lords.
High Priest.
Prince of Peace.
But the one that seems
to be His favorite;
the Good Shepherd.
It just seems unexpected that He
would embrace the
least of these.
But it's not,
is it?
So, so true! I had made the connection between shepherds being the lowest and Jesus assigning the name to Himself! Awesome!
ReplyDeleteI think the shepherds were not necessarily believed by the people ~ they were "amazed", but maybe not convinced? But God still gave the least-of-these shepherds the incredible honor of being the first earth-bound newsmen (the angels were the first of the heavenly sort) to witness to the Savior's arrival! Very upside-down awesome!
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