Want you to notice that the shepherds were just common people and the reason I'm focusing on the shepherds is because think about this
Why didn't God choose Caesar Augustus to reveal this to I mean, isn't he the man of the land?
Isn't he the important person during that time? Isn't he the king or you know, why not go to the governor?
Why not go to some political high leader with a lot of influence?
Right someone who can turn I'll tell you why because God is concerned with those who are lowly and contrite of spirit. That's why
That's who he's concerned with. In fact, that's who he is steams as being highly exalted in his eyes
So instead of going to the governor instead of going to the king instead of going to the Caesar of that day
The richest person in the world, you know, he goes to the lowly shepherds of the field think about that
These are in their nameless. There are no namers. No one knows what their names are
They're just lowly shepherds common people whom he chose to go to verse 8 says and they were in the same country
shepherds
abiding in the field now
I personally believe that there's certain qualities of the shepherds that made that basically made them worthy of God
choosing them and
One of them is the fact that there were workers
Because the Bible says that they were abiding in the field. What does that mean?
It doesn't mean they were just sleeping in on the grass or something like that
Just hanging out having a bonfire abiding in the field means they were working
Okay, you know people say oh I live at my job, you know, they're basically saying they're constantly working, right?
Well here we see that the shepherds were abiding in the field. They're working and God chose them now
It doesn't matter what their names are
it doesn't matter where they're from what matters to God is the humility right of being a shepherd and
It kind of reminds me of the verse where the Bible talks about first Corinthians chapter 1 for you see you're calling brethren
How that not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called and this should be an encouragement to you
And I because of the fact that the Bible tells us that we're made the off scouring of this world
you know, we're hated by people and
People don't really esteem Christians as having any type of valuable position here in this world
We're not really famous in the eyes of the world. In fact, we're like the scum of this world
I mean people literally they they hate what we believe they hate us. They hate what we do and
But here's the thing that makes us qualified
to be chosen of God
For a particular test because that's exactly who God wants he says but God had chosen the foolish things of this world
So hey, if you don't have any smarts, it's okay
Got low IQ, it's okay. I'm not saying you stay that way
But yeah, you know if you if you have a low IQ
You don't have a lot of knowledge says God had chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise
And God had chosen the weak things of this world to confound the things that are mighty
He says in base things of this world the lowest things of this world and things that are despised have God chosen
Yea things that are not to bring to not the things that are listen to this that no flesh should glory in his presence
So why would God choose the shepherds because when we look at the story we focus on God more than the shepherds
It's like why didn't God tell us the name of the shepherds because it doesn't matter
Who cares what their names are?
right
Whereas if it was like he came to Caesar Augustus like oh, yeah, we know Caesar Augustus
Oh, man, God used Caesar Augustus in such a great way such a godly man, you know who'd get all the credit Caesar Augustus