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• Today's "Learning with Luke" (7)

  28 December, 2012

  Joseph and Mary were amazed at what was being said about Jesus.  Then Simeon blessed them, and he said to Mary, "This child will be rejected by many in Israel, and it will be their undoing. But he will be the greatest joy to many others (Luke 2:33-34 NLT)

  There are some people in our world who you either hate or love. There is just something about them (usually we can't say just what that something is) that doesn't allow us to treat them in some neutral, take-it-or-leave-it manner.  Whatever it is, they just evoke something within us that is an extreme when measured against how we usually respond.

  It would seem to be that way with Jesus. Simeon had an insight or revelation about the baby he held in his arms that was "spot on".  That revelation says, in effect, that it is not possible to be neutral about Jesus. He presents Himself in such a way that does not allow neutrality. People then were either for Him or against Him. There was no middle ground. The same is true today.

  "This child will be rejected by many in Israel".  That sounds like no small movement against the Christ Child. Nothing has changed over the years. The tragedy of that rejection factor is that it is not without consequences. Says Simeon, "...that will be their undoing".
  But thank God that for those who respond positively to Jesus  ".....but to many others, He will be their greatest joy.  So Christmas is both good news and bad news. All of us will make a decision about this child of Bethlehem who became the man of Nazareth, the Christ of Calvary and the Lord of Glory.