Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Luke 2:25-35
by: Leota Stevens.
This passage doesn’t reveal just how old Simeon was when Mary and Joseph presented Jesus at the temple, but the implication is that he had been waiting for the arrival of the promised Messiah for a long time. Here are two people at polar opposites: Simeon at life’s end and Mary at youth’s flower—dark and light threads in the weaving of “His-story,” both incorporated into God’s design. The prophetic words that Simeon spoke that morning on the temple steps must have reverberated through Mary’s heart many times as she witnessed their accuracy in the life of her son.