The Christmas story is so mundane to me. I wish it weren't, but it is. I have memorized the entire Christmas story, and it is read several times at Christmastime, which seems to come quicker every year.
The thing that struck me most about Luke 2 is Simeon. I can imagine the joy grandparents feel at seeing their grandchildren born. Imagine hoping to be able to see that before you die. But imagine that God had promised you that you would see the Messiah in flesh. Imagine that God had told you the salvation of your country was coming and you would witness it first-hand.
Each person in Luke 2 played a "role" in promoting Jesus. The angels proclaimed his birth from the heavens! The shepherds clamored to worship him. Simeon sang a song at the temple. And Anna had just been praying that He would come.
What's my role in promoting Jesus? What am I doing to make him famous? I don't have to be a missionary. I don't have to be preaching Jesus from the rooftops. But I should be promoting him in my own life. Pretty sure Simeon didn't keep his news to himself. Pretty sure he went back and boasted to all his buddies at the barber shop that he'd seen the Christ, that God had allowed him to live long enough to see the Messiah.
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