Zechariah's Song of Praise

Zechariah’s Song of Praise
Luke 1.57-80

Many people today can’t imagine what life would be like without a television. We are so used to it telling us what to think about all the time that, without it, some people become quite worried, lost in a world of their own unfamiliar thoughts like an explorer whose guide has just disappeared. Take away radio and newspapers as well, and . . . what would you think about all day?

That was the situation, of course, of most people in the world until very recently. It was the situation for everybody in Jesus’ time. If you were Zechariah, what would you think of all day?

Your family, certainly. Local village business, presumably. Your health, quite possibly. The state of the crops, the prospect for harvest...

Taken from Luke for Everyone – by Tom Wright