Word among us meditation today12/19/2023 ![]() ![]() (Many thanks to The Word Among Us ( for allowing us to use meditations from their monthly devotional magazine. “Master, my eyes have seen your salvation. Christ is in you, and everything is going to be okay. He may not tell you how or when, but it doesn’t matter right now. He has come to bring salvation and consolation. Just as he did, take Jesus into your hands and into your heart. When you receive him, think of this prayerful man. Today in the house of the Lord, you will meet Jesus in the unlikely form of bread and wine-as Simeon met him in the unlikely form of an infant. God knows your anguish he hears your prayers he knows your concerns. He knew that it would happen, and that was enough for him to believe. He didn’t know how it would happen or when it would happen, but that didn’t matter. ![]() Simeon knew right then and there that everything was going to be okay. I can depart now, Lord, because you have come to save my people. You can just hear the emotion welling up in his words: “Now, Master, you may let your servant go in peace” (2:29). The “consolation of Israel” had finally arrived (Luke 2:25). Imagine how tender that moment was when Simeon took the child Jesus into his arms. So Simeon continued to pray for redemption. Israel was still an occupied nation, and her people were still divided between rich and poor, Pharisee and Sadducee, Galilean and Judean. For many years, Simeon had prayed for these promises to be fulfilled, but nothing had happened. He had promised a Messiah who would sit on the throne of David and draw all the nations to Jerusalem. God had promised restoration for his people, Israel. Simeon was looking for God’s consolation. ![]() Who wouldn’t like a bit of consolation today? Who wouldn’t like to feel the Lord put his arm around their shoulders and tell them, “Everything’s going to be okay”? The Presentation of the Lord in the Temple, A Prophetic Promise Fulfilled ![]()
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