Excitement!

There’s excitement in the air! Christmas is almost here! We have bought gifts, baked cookies, planned menus - all in anticipation of gathering with family and friends to celebrate Christmas.

I wonder if those Christmas shepherds must have experienced some of the same kind of excitement. Once they got past the fright of seeing the sky being filled with the angelic host, they heard the news that a Savior was born in Bethlehem. They left their shepherd's field and hastened in to Bethlehem to see this baby.  

"And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger."  (Luke 2: 16 KJV)

How exciting! To be the first visitors to see this newborn babe!

And what did they do with their excitement? They told everybody who would listen!

"And when they had seen it, they make known abroad the saying which was told them concerning the child."  (Luke 2:17 KJV)

I can hardly contain my excitement as I wait for my family to get here. Apparently, the shepherds could hardly contain their excitement at seeing the Christ Child.

There's a lesson for us there. This Christmas season, what are we most excited about?
And who are we telling?

Go, tell it on the mountain,

Over the hills and everywhere;

Go, tell it on the mountain

That Jesus Christ is born!

 

(text:  John W. Week, Jr.; Music:  Traditional Spiritual)

 

 

Listen here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcQjmS-JpmE