December 21, 2023 - Good Morning! It's Thursday, December 21.
As a student of the Bible, wouldn’t you be thrilled to have the opportunity to sit down with a Bible character and interview them? What would you ask Moses? What would your questions be for Paul? We focus on a man today who probably had an opportunity to do just that. Today we look at Luke.
Luke was a physician and highly educated. He was a man of details, an historian. Luke traveled with Paul on his missionary journeys and, several times, found himself in Ephesus. Here’s where our story gets interesting. It is thought by many Bible scholars that one of the residents of Ephesus during this time was none other than... Mary, the mother of Jesus.
Did Luke have the chance to interview Mary? If so, it would explain why Luke’s gospel has the most information about the birth of Christ. It would explain how he could write phrases like, “but Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.”
Take time this Christmas season to reread the Christmas story in Luke. And, as you do, try to imagine that the words are coming from... Mary.
Meet you back here tomorrow,
Bro. David
dmathis@fbccenter.org
