"Back then no one would have thought that God would be interested in shepherds, or that shepherds would be interested in God. Shepherds were notoriously irreligious and unbothered with spiritual things. Ranked by the rabbis with prostitutes and other "habitual sinners," shepherds were outcasts, rejects, pariahs, barred from synagogue and polite society. One rabbi declared: "In the whole world you will find no occupation more despised than the shepherds. But God never wastes His words, and He speaks only to those who want to hear what He has to say. He knew that these shepherds, underneath their seeming indifference and ever-hardening crust, were incurably religious men, who, in desperation, quietly longed for God... Once we have seen him in a stable, we can never be sure where he will appear, or to what lengths he will go or to what ludicrous depths of self-humiliation he will descend in his wild pursuit of man."
So, He is today. Whoever you might liken to a 'shepherd' might be just the person the Lord will be sending His heavenly messenger to bring him in search of Christ and finding Him in the most amazing way and in the most amazing place.
Seek Him First!
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