My guess is that one of the main reasons the angels came to the lowly shepherds was because they were the ones “keeping watch.” (Luke 2:8-15) It was an art they were well-practiced in; such an integral part of their everyday lives.
Keeping watch is so important in
the spiritual life. Yet, it is not as
easy as it seems. Oftentimes, our expectations
of what we will see, or how, where, or when we will
see it, get in the way. We are busy
looking for one thing, when God is doing another. We are expecting him to make a grand
entrance, when he is trying to sneak in the back door. He is often more quiet and hidden and subtle
than we give him credit for.
I mean, who in their right mind would expect God to come into his world as a baby? Yet that’s exactly what he did. So if we are trying to “keep watch” over these next days or weeks or months, we might do well to look for God to come in the ways we least expect.
Teach us, O Lord, to keep watch for your coming. For you are likely to come in a way that we least suspect. Amen.
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