Getting ready for Sunday - Luke 2:25-38

These days lines are long both in the check out and return line.  Some are still waiting for their UPS or FedEX packages to arrive in the mail.  Some are still waiting for their mail to arrive.  Nothing happens quickly or overnight.  Desire, however, is at an all time high.  The latest and greatest iPads, game console, and toys are hot ticket items.  The latest and greatest, newest and best have been rolled out - and if we didn’t get it for Christmas, we’d like to go out and get it now.

Will you wait as long as it takes to get through the checkout line, to get what it is you wanted?  Will you give up and leave the item there in line? Will you forget what it is you wanted or were looking for because you waited so long?

God’s people throughout the period of the Old Testament lived with both.  They lived with excited joy as they waiting with great expectation for the Lord’s Christ to come.  But then he didn’t come. And he didn’t come. And he didn’t come.  It was thousands of years from the time that God promised Eve a snake crusher from her family.  It was thousands of years of waiting - talk about waiting in line!

This Sunday, we move forward in the story of Jesus to the time when he was about 40 days old.  Yet, we move backward and imagine the expectation of Simeon and Anna.  They were both old.  They both had been waiting a long time.  What would they do?  What was it like for them when they met the Christ for the first time?  This Sunday we imagine and get into their sandals.  We’ll consider Luke 2:25-38.

Bring along your Bible and follow along as we dig into the Scriptures.  Bring a friend and invite them to share God’s Word with you as we meet Jesus in his house.