Even to Shepherds

Luke 2:8-20 Have you ever noticed the kinds of people that God uses. The disciples of Jesus were all simple people like fisherman and tax collectors. The mother of Jesus was a just a young Jewish girl. Among the people that Jesus ministered to were very few people of any note, all just common ordinary people. The only thing that they had in common was that when Jesus touched them, they responded to Him. Jesus said that, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." It shouldn't be surprising that He would send such a grandiose Angelic announcement to the shepherds on a lonely hillside outside Bethlehem. If God did such wonderful things for and through such people as these, and if we dare to believe that He is the same, yesterday, today, and forever; can we not also grasp the idea that He not only can but wants to do great things in our lives as well. There is a place somewhere between pride and humility. The pride which thinks that if I can't do it, then it must not be God's will. And the humility which would say that I'm so no good that God would never use me. Shouldn't we rather say, "I can't, but He can and He's willing, therefore I submit myself unto Him, so that He may do in me as He wishes.