Luke 2:14 page 1

Do you ever get so absorbed with something that you lose touch with the world? The Christian playwright Murray Watts says he does. He writes,

Sometimes, I get so wrapped up in what I am doing that the world fades into oblivion. My most meaningful mental lapse was when I was writing a Christmas play. I had made the Archangel Gabriel a very important character and I had been thinking about him a great deal as I worked alone in my house. I went downstairs to make myself a cup of tea and, as I was taking the tray upstairs, I realised I'd made two cups of tea - one for myself, and one for the Archangel Gabriel.
[Murray Watts, Rolling In The Aisles, p125 #214.]

Those angels get everywhere - especially in the Christmas story. They tell Zechariah about the forthcoming birth of his son John the Baptist, they announce to Mary and Joseph about the coming of Jesus, and here a whole regiment of them appears in the sky to make sure the shepherds get the point.

And it's to their famous song that I turn for a text tonight:

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to those on whom his favour rests.

It splits into two halves: the first has glory, the second has peace; the first has God, the second has people; the first is located in heaven, the second on earth. Between them they tell us much about the Christmas message. Let's consider the two parts.

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