Repeat the Sounding Joy??

I mean really, not just another night sleeping rough in the fields facing whatever weather, minding sheep, wolves and God knows what else near the bottom end of society.

What a raving shock for an angel appearing like lightning in the sky speaking to -them-!

Then a mass of singing angels shining bright and sounding out the prophetic fulfillment of GREAT JOY to all people.

Not quite the same-old same-old to these smelly sheep herders -who after freaking out... what... either left the sheep for a bit or quickly moved them to the very place the angel said they should go, where he provided details and in the strange place for giving human birth they saw precisely what they had been told: the Messiah as a newborn male child with parents there in the animal stall of a barn.

God often chooses "the least", the obscure, the "nobodies" letting them in on the most amazing and important, even essential events!

Mary was just another young Jewish girl. Amos the prophet was a farmer out in the sticks. So many in Bible history like them were called, indeed favored.

So what did the shepherds do? Just like the Christmas hymn says -they themselves did. They couldn't keep quiet, just like those angels giving glory to God they repeated that sounded-out joy.

In a dark, sick, sin-filled and broken world, as people of God it's OUR turn to repeat the sounding joy!

And as always, thanks for stopping by! -Glenn