When Mary and Joseph take Jesus to the temple to carry out several important Jewish ceremonies, they are met by Simeon. God has promised to Simeon that he will not die before he has seen the promised Messiah and he rejoices to see Jesus. Whilst we might be tempted to read this passage simply as a happy human interest story at the end of Luke’s account of the nativity, it is actually much more than that. We see that Jesus is God’s true sacrifice for sin and that he is the promised saviour for the whole word. We also see that he brings division between those who trust him as saviour and those who reject him. What is our response to him? And if we have trusted him, will we take the good news of God’s saviour out to our communities in the coming year?