Sunday, December 23, 2001
Sunday, December 23, 2001
"So I say to you, Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find;
knock, and the door will be opened for you."
"Is that all?" asked the boy. "What did you do when you heard the good news? Was it
true? Was the Christ child really born?"
The old man replied, with some sadness, "I never knew. Some say it was true; some
say it was only a dream. I didn't take the trouble to go and see."
And there are many people like that. They're not bad people. In fact, most of them are
very nice people, but they just don't want to go to the trouble to see for themselves if
the babe born in a stable two thousand years ago is really the Messiah--the Savior of
the world.
"So I say to you, Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the
door will be opened for you."
(Luke 11:9
NRSV)
Clovis Chappell used to tell the story about one of the shepherds who heard the
proclamation of the angels about the birth of Jesus but did not go to Bethlehem to see
for himself. Decades later, as he held his grandson on his knee, this shepherd told the
child the stirring story about Jesus and the angels.
Loving God, I will find you in this season of Christmas through the Christ child. Amen.
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