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Expect The Extraordinary

DAY 12 OF 25

Expect vulnerability

God revealed the news of Jesus’ coming to a bunch of shepherds; poor and uneducated. He revealed it to the royal Majii too, but he saved the most glorious encounter – an angelic vision – for the unassuming shepherds. 

Jesus himself came as a child. Naked, vulnerable, ignorant, unskilled and totally dependent. Devoid of any status.

How quickly we forget who our God really is and what his priorities are. And we fail to grasp how the life Jesus chose to be born into, upturns the very order of the world we live in.

May we love all the vulnerable and status-less of our world as if they were him. Because they might well have been 2,000 years ago. And he is certainly there among them now.

Stella Chatham, Tearfund

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Expect The Extraordinary

This Advent, join us as we wait with expectancy for the arrival of an extraordinary God. Use these daily reflections to reflect and prepare for the celebration of Christmas. We hope you can claim a little bit of time each day to focus and be inspired during this precious and beautiful time of year.

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We would like to thank Tearfund for providing this plan. For more information, please visit: http://www.tearfund.org/yv