That’s the title (with the You in italics, which I can’t get the the heading) of a short piece from Martin Luther I found in Watch for the Light – a book of daily readings for Advent and Christmas that I’m using this year. And, I guess if you’re looking for dandelions, you’ll find dandelions. Because it fits with my sermon for tonight (which I posted yesterday). It fits well enough that I’m considering adding it as a postscript:
The angel said to them, “Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all the people; for there is born to you this day a savior, who is Christ the Lord.” [Luke 2:10]
“… [The angel] does not simply say, Christ is born, but to you he is born. Neither does he say, I bring glad tidings, but to you I bring glad tidings of great joy. Furthermore, this joy was not to remain in Christ, but it shall be to all the people. …Christ must above all things become our own and we become his. This is what is meant by Isaiah 9:6 ”Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.” To you is born and given this child. … The Gospel does not merely teach about the history of Christ. No, it enables all who believe it to receive it as their own, which is the way the Gospel operates.”
