Christmas Morning: Son Rise on a New Dayಮಾದರಿ

Imagine for a moment that you are a researcher working to find a cure for cancer. In your lab, you discovered a medicine that eradicated cancer in just one dose, with no negative long-term side effects. What would you do with this cancer cure? Would you keep it to yourself or share it with others? You would shout it from the mountaintops! The blessing to society would be too great to keep it to yourself.

Upon hearing the news that Jesus was born, the shepherds went to check it out. After seeing the Savior lying in a manger, the shepherds began to rejoice. The promised Messiah had arrived! The One who would bring peace was in their city! This truly was “good news of great joy for all the people.”

So what did the shepherds do with this news? They were telling others! Imagine the scene as the shepherds went from house to house to find the baby lying in the manger. This would have caused quite a stir! After finally finding Jesus, the shepherds began to retreat through the city. No doubt Bethlehem’s residents would have asked the shepherds, “Did you find who you were looking for? Who was that child anyway?”

This created the perfect opportunity for the shepherds to be the first human evangelists, spreading the news of their angelic visit and the identity of the Baby that the angels were announcing. This certainly piqued the interest of the good people of Bethlehem.“ Could He be the Messiah?”

Who Jesus is and what He has done for us is news too great to keep to ourselves. Like the shepherds before us, may we come to the manger and see, and then go to the world and tell them the good news of Jesus Christ!

The world universally shares the same problem (sin) and has the same longing (for things to be set right). Jesus has come to cure the sin-cancer that has metastasized to humanity since Adam and Eve’s fall in the Garden. He alone can provide for us forgiveness of sin, hope of everlasting life, and an invitation to participate in His glorious kingdom. This news is simply too wonderful to keep to ourselves.

So go tell it on the mountain that Jesus Christ is born! Who can you share the good news with this week?