Luke’s Christmas Story
Luke 1:1-38
Elizabeth
Luke 1:21-25 (NIV)
Meanwhile, the people were waiting for Zechariah and wondering why he stayed so long in the temple. 22 When he came out, he could not speak to them. They realized he had seen a vision in the temple, for he kept making signs to them but remained unable to speak. 23 When his time of service was completed, he returned home. 24 After this his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in seclusion. 25"The Lord has done this for me," she said. "In these days he has shown his favor and taken away my disgrace among the people." Luke 1:21-25 (NIV)
Pastor’s Thoughts
I like very much the following passage from William Barclay’s commentary on the New Testament:
“We may often wish that a message from God would come to us. It was in God’s House that the message came to Zehariah.
In Shaw's play, Saint Joan, Joan hears voices from God. The Dauphin is annoyed. "Oh, your voices, your voices," he said, "Why don't the voices come to me? I am king not you." "They do come to you," said Joan, "but you do not hear them. You have not sat in the field in the evening listening for them. When the angelus rings you cross yourself and have done with it; but if you prayed from your heart, and listened to the thrilling of the bells in the air after they stop ringing, you would hear the voices as well as I do."
Joan gave herself the chance to hear God's voice. Zacharias was in the Temple waiting on God. God's voice comes to those who listen for it--as Zacharias did--in God's house”
Do you come to worship with expectation that God will speak to you?
A treasure is 'quietness of Spirit'-to look with the heart and not the mind. To soak in the simple and feel God's presence in all things and discover His treasures that each day brings. "This is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it".
ReplyDeleteAh, quiet and serenity with God, how blessed we are!