Everybody Wonder

E don almost reach morning for Bethlehem, and doors dey open. People wey still dey feel sleep step comot, and dem see one group of shepherds, dia eye dey shine, all of dem dey talk at di same time. Una no go believe wetin we just see.

Few hours before, dis shepherds dey sit down near fire for di hillside, dey guard dia sheep. Then one angel come. Then one whole army of angels. Then dem run fast fast go down town, dey find one baby wey dey lie down inside manger. And dem find am, exactly as dem tell dem: Mary, Joseph, and di newborn pikin. Dem don stand for dat small room. Dem don look dat small face. And now dem step comot go back to di street. Di town full with people wey come back home for di emperor registration. Every house full. And every house go soon hear di news.

Luke talk say when dem don see am, dem spread di word wey dem hear about dis pikin go everywhere. Dem see, so dem talk. Dem no need plan. Dem no need training. Dem just pass wetin dem hear and see give oda people. Imagine as dem dey stop people for well side and for door mouth. Angel come! Dem plenty, hundreds, thousands. Dem talk say dem don born Saviour, Christ di Lord. And we find am, right here for dis town, e dey lie down inside manger.

And how people take react? Luke talk say all di people wey hear am wonder for di tins wey di shepherds tell dem. E shock dem. Maybe some laugh because dem no believe. Shepherds see angels? Maybe some go see di baby by demself. Maybe some just stand there, dey turn di words for dia mind. Luke no talk say all of dem believe. E talk say all of dem wonder. Di news too big for person to ignore, even though na di people wey nobody expect bring am.

Think about di people wey God choose for dis work. No be priests from di temple. No be di teachers wey sabi di scriptures for head. No be government people with seal and scroll. Na shepherds. Working men wey dia hand dirty, wey dia words simple. Out of everybody for di world, na dem first see di newborn Messiah, and na dem first tell oda people about am. Many years after, dis baby go grow and call imself di good shepherd. But for dis first morning, na ordinary shepherds carry im good news pass for di streets.

Luke care well well about eyewitnesses, people wey see tins with dia own eye. For di very beginning of im gospel, e tell one man wey dem dey call Theophilus say e don carefully find out everything from di beginning, using di accounts wey di people wey see am from di start pass down. Di shepherds fit dat pattern exactly. Dem see, and dem tell. For Luke story, di good news of Jesus dey spread from one person to another, from di very first night.

You go find di shepherds news for Luke chapter two, verse seventeen and eighteen. Ordinary people wey don meet Jesus, and dem no fit keep am to demself. So see one question wey you go carry dey go. Wetin you don see or learn about Jesus wey you fit share with another person?