St. Luke 2:25.
“And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and
the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and
the Holy Ghost was upon him.” It is a
great testimony left behind by Simeon, attested to by St. Luke who wrote under
the inspiration of God, that Simeon was a just (dikaios 1342) and devout (eulabes
2126) man. Simeon was just in that
he was innocent before God and therefore a holy man. He was also called a devout man because he
walked circumspectly before God and therefore was a religiously pious man.
Simeon
was another example of a person whom God trusted so much that He promised
Simeon that he would see the Christ before he died. We have further evidence that Simeon was a
holy man in that the Scripture states very clearly that “the Holy Ghost was
upon him”. Even before the dispensation
of the Holy Spirit was ushered in at the day of Pentecost, Simeon was said to be
holy because the Holy Ghost was upon him.
This
holy man was able to not only see the Christ child, but also able to take Him
up in his arms and proclaim with great faith in chapter two verse 30, “For now
I have seen thy salvation”. Praise God,
as Simeon proclaimed in verse 32 that Christ was “A light to lighten the
Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
Praise God that verse takes me in because I am a Gentile. Christ not only came for His own, but also
for all the rest of us, who required, in our lost and alienated condition, to
be adopted as sons and daughters of God.
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