What Are We to Do?

Reading:
Luke 3:1-17

Focus:
Luke 3:10:"The people asked him, 'Then what are we to do?'"

This is the passage my husband Jim preached on this Sunday morning.

John the Baptist was busy preparing the way for Jesus. He was announcing that the Messiah was going to come. As my husband put it, he was the first Christmas caroler.

What is fascinating is that so many people responded to John's message by asking what they should do to live differently. When they heard what John had to say, they wanted to repent and live new lives.

This is not a common reaction now when people hear Christmas carols. Instead, most people seem to think of gifts, of pleasant times around a fire, of parties, of seeing family, and so on. But back in the time of John the Baptist, the response of many people to the announcement of the coming of the Messiah was, "What are we to do?"

May this also be our response.