I am still celebrating the Christmas Story, bit by bit, one miracle, one fascinating character at a time, each worthy of it's only celebration.
My daughter, who doesn't read this anyway, feels like there has not been enough celebration of Joseph. So I asked her what she thought should be celebrated. So here it is:
Mary was pregnant. Joseph was planning to write a private Dear John letter to Mary. And he has a dream in which an angel appears to him. It is so powerful of a dream that he that he is immediately obedient, to the extend that it says: When he woke up. Talk about a shot gun wedding.
I've had dreams that I think God was speaking to me, but I don't think I've ever made life changing decisions based on a dream. Joseph did. Have you ever had a dream so powerful that you changed your mind about something?
Celebrating the power of dreams that God uses to move us!
Matthew 1:20 While Joseph thought about these things, an angel of the Lord came to him in a dream. The angel said, “Joseph, descendant of David, don’t be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because the baby in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus,[e] because he will save his people from their sins.”
22 All this happened to bring about what the Lord had said through the prophet: 23 “The virgin will be pregnant. She will have a son, and they will name him Immanuel,”[f] which means “God is with us.”
24 When Joseph woke up, he did what the Lord’s angel had told him to do. Joseph took Mary as his wife, 25 but he did not have sexual relations with her until she gave birth to the son. And Joseph named him Jesus.
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