'Luke 2:22-35' Tagged Posts

'Luke 2:22-35' Tagged Posts

Daily Devotions: December 30, 2017

Luke 2:22-35 “Master, now you are dismissing your servant in peace, according to your word; for my eyes have seen your salvation…” vss. 29-30 According to witnesses, as Martin Luther lay dying in Eisleben, the town of his birth, he repeated these words from Simeon’s song over and over. After a long (for those days) and tumultuous life he yearned for the peace that he knew death would bring. In Luke’s story Simeon sings because after a lifetime of waiting…