Then his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke this prophecy: ‘Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has looked favorably on his people and redeemed them. He has raised up a mighty savior for us in the house of his servant David, as he spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from of old, that we would be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us. Thus he has shown the mercy promised to our ancestors, and has remembered his holy covenant, the oath that he swore to our ancestor Abraham, to grant us that we, being rescued from the hands of our enemies, might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him all our days. And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways, to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the forgiveness of their sins. By the tender mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will break upon us, to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.’ (Luke 1:67-79, NRSV)
Here Zechariah was freed from the silence he was placed under for not believing the messenger of the Lord…
He is loosed in the Spirit to speak the praises of God and all He is doing through his son, and His Son!
So Zechariah speaks and tells of the freed we have been promised and how John will help lead this awareness into the world and how we will all take part.
You see we get the part we are freed from the hands of our enemies, That is the part we all like, but then we miss the next part, because we are celebrating our freedom. We are freed from the hands of our enemies so that we might serve Him without fear, and by serving Him we are serving others, and not just those that sit next to us in the pews on Sunday morning, but those in the world who are different from us, and do not believe like us…
We are freed to serve! So revel in the freedom, but get to serving!
aSacredRebel 