…that we might know
Albert Bogle
November 28, 2021
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Luke 1: 1-4 (NRSVA)
1 Since many have undertaken to set down an orderly account of the events that have been fulfilled among us, 2 just as they were handed on to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word, 3 I too decided, after investigating everything carefully from the very first, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, 4 so that you may know the truth concerning the things about which you have been instructed.
The sub-theme this week centres around conversations of unbelief. Perhaps the internal conversations we have with ourselves but also the honest questioning that Luke reports as he tells the story of the birth of Jesus and the unexpected visitor who challenged their reality.
Here in the opening sentences of his account of the life of Jesus, Luke makes it plain that what he is writing about is not some made up exaggerated story, but an authentic account. He tells us that he has researched the material and spoken to the original eye witnesses. Knowing this I find myself drawn more into the story. Here is a first century researcher giving us the methodology he used to reach his conclusions. In doing so he is inviting his reader to have confidence in the things he is going to tell them about Jesus and in turn we are invited to have confidence as we tell others.
It is my hope that during this time of Advent all of us who have been taught these stories of Jesus and his birth might find ourselves embracing them with a new certainty. Luke invites us to open our minds to the possibility of another dimension of life, one in which angels can appear and God can come closer to the most unexpected people.
PRAYER:
Our Heavenly Father,
God of all creation,
Thank you for sending us Jesus
That we might know
How to explore
The mystery
Of his story —
Giving meaning
To our story as it is and will be
played out in history
Loving Father above all earthly parents
Thank you for allowing
Eternity to break into time
That we might know
God laid in a manger
God nailed to a cross
God turning the world upside down
That we might know
Love defined as a verb
Word of Life
We worship you
God of action
moving a stone
To prove nothing has been left to chance
No stone left unturned
To show
No distance too far
To reconcile sinners to himself
Thank you Father
that this is not in a fairytale story
But your finished story of creation.
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