So...Why Did God Choose to Start with the Shepherds???

Have you ever wondered why God had the angel start with the shepherds with the birth announcement of Jesus?

I believe one of the reasons is the laid-back life style of a shepherd, which in this case meant receptive hearts that were ready to receive the message and were excited to go and tell others about it!

Can you imagine if God had the angel make the announcement today? What if the angel had to bring his good news of great joy to one of us? Other than being freaked out by the scary angel, are we in a place where we would hear him...especially at this, most wonderful time...of the year? The chief priests helped the wise men find Jesus, yet felt no compulsion to follow them.

I'll be delving deeper into this topic this coming Sunday evening, during our 5:30pm service.

Luke 2:15, "When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let's go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about."

Funny Questions

Call it lack of curiosity, but I really don't care why the chicken crossed the road...

But I am curious about other things. I've heard people say that they have a list of questions for God when they get to heaven. Usually they start out with, "Why did you allow...?"

But that doesn't describe my questions...No, I have questions about things that I read in scripture. No, not, "Where did Cain get his wife?"

My questions are more about wanting to know whether or not there were things said in between some of the sentences in Scripture...

I'll put a big red question mark where I would like to ask God if any further words were said...

Numbers 22:28 - Then the Lord opened the donkey's mouth, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?" ? 29-Balaam answered the donkey, "You have made a fool of me! If I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now."

One more...
Hosea 1:1-3, "The Word of the Lord that came to Hosea..."Go, take to yourself an adulterous wife and children of unfaithfulness, because the land is guilty of the vilest adultery in departing from the Lord." ? 3-So he married Gomer..."

Does anyone else out there have any???