I Will Ride With You

Jesus' birth is good news for all: not just for some, but for all, for the shepherds as well as the kings, for the homeless as well as those living in mansions, for the most impoverished as well as for the most wealthy. And because it is good news for all, it is good news for you, for you personally, for you, whether you understand it or not, whether you believe it or not: For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be a sign for you, that the baby will be wrapped in swaddling bands and lying in a manger. This good news is for you. For this is the most democratic of news, that it isn’t only some of us who are important, it isn’t only some of us who measure up, it isn’t only some of us who fall within the scope of God’s love and care. The Saviour has come for us all, for you and for me, to save us from the assumption, as common now as it was then, that only some of us matter to God, that only some of us matter at all.