Come and Worship
Advent Day 22
Luke 2:21 On the
eighth day, when it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, the name
the angel had given him before he had been conceived. 22 When the time of their
purification according to the Law of Moses had been completed, Joseph and Mary
took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23 (as it is written in the
Law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to the Lord”), 24
and to offer a sacrifice in keeping with what is said in the Law of the Lord:
“a pair of doves or two young pigeons.”
THE most basic way of worship is demonstrated in this quiet
obedient act. There were no angels with trumpets announcing the Savior coming
into town. There was no heavenly music, no parade of the shepherds and their
friends, nor certainly any outpouring from the priests and teachers. The One,
who would make sacrifice obsolete by becoming the sacrifice, came this day in
the arms of his mother who sacrificed pigeons to obey God’s Law.
The power of this
lesson is to feel the worship. Can you feel the joy in Joseph and Mary’s heart?
Can you feel the thankfulness that God has delivered a son to them? Do you feel
the awe that they are taking God’s Son to God’s House? Do you tremble with them
at the wonder of being chosen for this great task? Do you even have some fear
with them that they may make a mistake—goof it up—and God would be angry with
them? Do you feel their desire to love God by raising His Son in the Father’s
ways? Do you feel their worshipful wonder and awe of a God who has shown
himself to them so personally?
Pause and Consider: Worship is your only response to God’s
gift of Jesus.
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