"Go, See, Tell"

So…
Can you remember the last time you told somebody about something you discovered?

Like a restaurant that made food that was just so good? 

Or a car buying experience that seemed almost painless. 

Or a math tutor or a driving instructor for your teenager that made the process smooth, in fact so smooth that your teenager for a moment didn’t resent you for being a parent?

Discovery of amazing things, fantastic good news is compelling. Not only do we enjoy it, take it in, celebrate it personally, but we often then go and tell others about what we have experienced.

And its easy. No one has to tell us, “you know, you had such a good experience you should really tell your friends and family about it”! 

No, we just do!

In fact sometimes we are so effusive that others start to tell us we we need to pipe down, put a cork in it, stop telling the story.

We can, but we don’t want to! Because what we have experienced is such good news.

And that’s the cool thing about the Christmas story as it is told in Luke’s Gospel. 

The shepherds had heard such good news that they couldn’t help but go and tell.

After encountering the heavenly hosts, the angels, God’s glory, they hustled off the Bethlehem to see if this incredible story they had heard was true, and then they went and told it to everyone who would listen.

And we are invited to do the same!

To come both to the manger and see the innocent way God begins the story of our salvation, but also come to the cross and see what God was willing to give up in order to reestablish a relationship with us.

And then we are invited to go and tell.

To come to the table and see and taste God’s love, and then go from the table to share God’s love, not only in words, though certainly those, but in deeds, just as God as done for us!

To make God’s love real. To have some skin in the game as they say, to enflesh God’s love in the ways we live and give.

The child of Bethlehem to whom the shepherds were summoned continues to call us to go and tell.

Amen.