Luke 1

Luke 1 - http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%201&version=ESV

                How do you respond to God’s grace and goodness in your life?  What do you do when God interrupts your everyday life and proclaims His salvation to you? 
                In Luke 1 we meet some regular, ordinary, everyday people who are going about their business when God sends an angel to them.  After this moment their lives were wonderfully changed by God’s grace. 
                Their lives were wonderfully changed, but that does not mean the experience was easy.  Zechariah could not speak until John was born.  Mary had to deal with the stigma of being pregnant outside of marriage, and Matthew tells us that her fiancé was going to dump her.  Yet, through their lives God was bringing salvation to all people. 
                God still works through regular, ordinary, everyday people to bring salvation into people’s lives.  He works in everyday circumstances, even (maybe especially!) the hard ones, to bring eternal life to people.  God’s plan is to work through fallen people to bring hope, life and salvation to other fallen people in the world. 
It might be tempting to think, “But He’s never sent me an angel to tell me about His salvation.”  Perhaps not, but he has sent you His Son.  “Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son….”  (Hebrews 1:1-2 ESV) 
God has broken into your life.  He reached out to your through Jesus Himself by touching you with His Word, directly in your ears or connected to water in Baptism.  He still gives you life through His Word, Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.  You have been swept up into God’s plan of salvation in Jesus and He uses you to bring the Good News to normal everyday people who don’t know Jesus … yet. 

Father in Heaven, too often I overlook how you have worked in my life.  Help me to rejoice in your salvation and share it with others.  Amen.

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