This Christmas at our house, there was a lot of smiling and a lot of thankfulness—but not a lot of surprise. Every time someone opened a gift and tried to act shocked, somebody else would say, “It was on your Amazon list.”
And as soon as that was said, the surprise was gone.
We live in a world where almost nothing catches us off guard anymore. We track packages. We make lists. We already know what’s coming.
But the first Christmas?
Nobody had a list.
Nobody expected it to happen this way.
And Luke reminds us that Christmas isn’t about God meeting expectations—it’s about God doing something far better than we imagined.