The Christmas Story is worth celebrating and I am still celebrating it! Today, I am celebrating the instant obedience of Joseph after the visit of the Magi. Joseph joined the witness protection program and left for Egypt in the middle of the night. When I reflect on this story, what strikes me is the instantaneous obedience.
Wouldn't it have been good enough to leave in the morning? What did the neighbors think when the Magi parade in one night and the whole family is gone in the morning?
But for me, it is the pressing question of could you, would you in the middle of the night obey? Leave it all.
Matt. 2:13 After they left, an angel of the Lord came to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up! Take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt, because Herod is starting to look for the child so he can kill him. Stay in Egypt until I tell you to return.”
14 So Joseph got up and left for Egypt during the night with the child and his mother. 15 And Joseph stayed in Egypt until Herod died. This happened to bring about what the Lord had said through the prophet: “I called my son out of Egypt.”[a]
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