Do you remember when you first heard about Jesus? How did you respond?
When the shepherds heard the message from the angels they quickly went to find the family the angels had told them about. They searched and found them but more importantly they found Him. I wonder what they thought. How could this child be the Christ? Could He really be the one all of the prophecies were written about? A baby? And yet there must have been something special about this family because the shepherds left believing what they had been told.

I was told of a little boy who was playing the Inn keeper in a children’s play. He had rehearsed his lines over and over preparing to tell Mary and Joseph there was no room in the Inn. The night of the play the rambunctious little boy was struck by the truth that Jesus’ parents were turned away and denied a place to sleep. When it was his turn to say his line confirming there was no room in the Inn he said it with gusto “There is no room in the Inn.” He followed it with “but you can have my room.” The teacher nearly fell out of her chair, but the heart of the child speaks for itself. When you understand who Jesus really is it changes you, and when the shepherds heard and saw they too were changed.

How about you? Has Jesus changed you?