[This is the devotional I wrote for the second week of Eastbrook Church's Advent 2018 devotional. Join in with the daily journey through Advent here.] “But they were childless because Elizabeth was not able to conceive, and they were both very old…Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in seclusion. ‘The Lord has done this …
Elizabeth in Shadows
In the midst of all the grand things God is doing at the beginning of the Gospel of Luke, there is something much smaller going on. In the midst of the story of God playing out in human history and the incense of the Temple in Jerusalem with Zechariah, there is a woman standing in shadows …
Matthew Erickson 