When Rachel and I were first married, I would startle her all the time. I'd walk into a room and she'd jump, because she wasn't used to having someone else around all the time. I'd always joke and remind her that I lived there, too.
It's funny to me that Zechariah is so shocked to see an angel here -- he was walking into the temple of the Lord -- what did he expect to see? The reality is that he didn't expect that God would really show up! He was simply doing his job, but in the midst of it, God showed up! Zechariah was rightly afraid, as I'm sure we'd all be at the sight of an angel.
God came to deliver a message, and I love the imagery of the whole multitude of people praying outside. What would it look like to do that for one another? I wonder about that -- maybe it's by text message, or some other means, but wouldn't it be great for us to know that when we were facing something big, the whole multitude was praying for us in that moment?
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