Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Luke chapter 1 verses 57-63:
57 When it was time for Elizabeth to have her baby, she gave birth to a son. 58 Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they shared her joy.
59 On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him after his father Zechariah, 60 but his mother spoke up and said, “No! He is to be called John.”
61 They said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who has that name.”
62 Then they made signs to his father, to find out what he would like to name the child. 63 He asked for a writing tablet, and to everyone’s astonishment he wrote, “His name is John.”
“So that’s how it is in their family.”
That’s what the neighbors must have thought when they heard Zechariah confirm Elizabeth in the naming of their child John.
And why did it have to be mansplained like that, anyways?
Because in that world — as is too often the case in our own — the people wouldn’t believe the woman.
But — regardless of what the neighbors thought — the baby’s name was John; and Elizabeth was the one who gave it.
And so, with the coming of this child a new age was being ushered in. No longer would custom dictate. The settled order of things would be disrupted. The established would be disestablished, the mountains leveled, the valleys raised, and the women would speak . . . and be heard.
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