A Scripture and a Prayer: “A Willingness to Receive”

“The shepherds said to one another, ‘Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us.’” (Luke 2:15)

Prayer:

Lord, with Christmas just a few days away, I was thinking about those shepherds who were keeping watch over their flocks, and how willing they were to receive the good news that brings great joy, that Christ the Lord, Emmanuel, God with us, had been born. And how willing they were to leave it all behind to go and see what the angel proclaimed, not to see if it was true, but because they believed God at His word. Help us to be more like the shepherds, willing to receive Your word and believe, without doubt and without hesitancy. Therefore, like the father who asked Jesus for the healing, we say, “Lord, I believe, help my unbelief.” And this I ask in Jesus’s name. AMEN