“‘And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.’  And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!’” [Luke 2:12-14, ESV]

It is at this point that if I’m a shepherd witnessing this, I’m probably looking over at my co-worker and saying, “Dude…did you slip something in my coffee?”

In all seriousness, God is a funny guy. He loves irony. A host of angels came to announce the birth of Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, not to the masses of Jerusalem or the royal leaders of the kingdom, but rather to a bunch of humble sheep herders in the country. To throw a cherry on top, the sweet scents of barnyard hay with a strong influence of animal dung would accompany His coronation as He laid on a throne of animal slop.

As illustrated in the way He chose to enter the world, God’s motives and make-up are so completely opposite from anything related to arrogance that He went to great lengths to disassociate with it. Yet throughout my life, the biggest inhibitor towards building a relationship with the Lord has been my arrogance.

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