God Dances among the Common

God invites the common to a dance.  Consider it this way.

Common Shepherds

He could have danced among the elite.  He could have invited those in the ivory palaces and palatial homes to witness the birth of his son.  Yet he chose common men of the field.  They wore coarse clothing; sometimes it was ragged and torn.  Sometimes, more often than not, they smelled of the fields, and of the sheep, and for lack of proper bathing opportunities.  Yet God wanted to dance with them, and it was so.

Common Sheep and Cows, Donkeys and Goats – oh my!

These were the witnesses to the birth of God’s son.  God gave them a ring-side seat.  What a dance that must have been.

Common Peasant Woman

The princess of the ball was a common peasant woman named Mary.  She was perhaps fourteen.  She wasn’t royalty.  She wasn’t rich.  She wasn’t experienced in the ways of the world.

She was available.

She was willing.

And that is all God wanted and needed for this dance.

Common Carpenter

What?  A carpenter to be the earthly role model for the Son of God?  That is surely how we would think.  What was God thinking?

He was thinking – I need a man who can follow orders, one who is stable, reliable, responsible, tender, wise, and will love the mother of my Son and will love and nurture my Son and raise him in proper ways.  And so God danced with Joseph.

Common Bethlehem

Bethlehem wasn’t much as a city.  It was okay for its day, but it was no New York City.  We are speaking of “O little town of Bethlehem” you know.  Small Bethlehem.  A middle of the road village that just happened to be significant because of its lineage dating back to King David. 

And Bethlehem is the town in which God wanted His most important dance to take place.

You see, God used common people and common places and animals to welcome His most important presentation.

It is an uncommon story of love.

It is an uncommon story of redemption.

He was an uncommon Savior, come to save the world.  

And He invites us to this dance, a dance that will last for eternity. 

P Michael Biggs

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