#3 GIVING TO GOD LIKE SIMEON–A Life of Walking In The Spirit

This Christmas season we are looking at five lives that God portrays as giving to Christ at His birth. Each is a beautiful portrait of giving to Him what they had. Each of these lives has been immortalized by God for what they did.

As we opened the Book of Luke, we found that each of them gave far more than a single gift, they each showed:

A Life Focused on Giving to God

Think of that. Five individuals did something that only God really saw, and only a few others barely witnessed as they watched. But what those five did has become a part of what will last forever and ever.

This morning each of us is also offered the opportunity each day to do things only God really sees, and what few if any others get to witness, but when we give ourselves in acts of obedient offerings to God, we become a part of something that will last forever and ever.

1. Giving to God Like Mary: A Life of Consecration (Luke 1:26-55)

2. Giving to God Like the Shepherds: A Life Wrapped with Humility (Luke 2:8-20)

3. Giving to God Like Simeon: A Life of Walking in the Spirit (Luke 2:22-35)

Meet Simeon

Simeon is introduced to us by God in Luke 2:22-35, and if it wasn’t for that introduction, he would be like untold billions of others throughout human history that were only known by those closest to them during their lives; and who died without leaving a trace.

Even God hadn’t added him to the Biblical record, and even if we had never read about Simeon, what he was will last forever. Simeon was an Old Testament saint, who lived in hope waiting for the coming Christ by faith; and died in faith ready to go whenever God’s time came. Ready to go, what a way we all should live.

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