A Christmas Job

Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night.  Luke 2:8

We work jobs to pay for the cost of living. Sometimes the cost of living runs a little wild and gets out of the control of those we elect hoping they will make it a little better for us. We gripe and moan a bit, and those shepherds out in the field likely had similar conversations in their day. We are about 3 weeks from Christmas Day, and by now you probably know whether you have one of those Christmas jobs; the ones where a person must work through the holiday. The shepherds had just such a job, but they didn't know it in this verse. This is one of those setting verses that get us going as we know that the knowledge of their Christmas job is about to be announced to them in a spectacular way. So spectacular is the announcement that these shepherds will find themselves sorely afraid. But the news is nothing but the good news of our Lord's arrival! 

The good news of Jesus Christ may come as a shock to someone, but announce it anyway!

Bucky