Often I like to cheer for the underdog. It is exciting when a person or team that doesn't stand a chance and is totally unknown begins to be noticed. When my wife and I were houseparents at a children's home there was an in-care boy who was unmannerly, disobedient and unproductive. His family had discarded him and he seemed to have no promise. Then something happened in his life to change everything. He settled down, studied hard, went on to college and after graduating became the regional director for a very well known Christian ministry.
That boy experienced the same thing the unknown shepherds of Christmas experienced. The voice of the Lord came to them. The shepherds were the underdogs of society. They had a life that was looked down on by those around them. But God seeks the lowly to use in his work. When the angel appeared to them they listened. Immediately they focused their priorities on seeing and worshipping Jesus. After visiting him they shared the good news they had heard with everyone around them.
God has not changed. He still seeks out those who seem to be unimportant and unknown. It is in them that he can work and receive the glory due to his name. Yesterday in our school chapel we heard from a man who had spent seventeen years of his life shuffling from prison to prison. Then he met Jesus and his life has been transformed. He has his own business but his ministry is to share the good news of what God has done in his life with students and others who need to hear. God can do the same with any of us. Allow the grace of God to touch you as it did that young boy at the children's home, the shepherds and the man who had been a convict most of his life. God specializes in taking the last and making them the first.
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