Sometimes, God will ask us to do something we don't necessarily want to do. We may argue, bargin, or even get down right angry with God.
Perhaps we will even refuse something that God wants us to do for him.
But think about it. What if Joseph would have done any of those things when the angel went to him in a dream to tell him that the girl that would be married to him, was going to have a baby?
Would he have bargained with God to not put him through this? Would he have tried to argue way out of it? Would he have gotten angry with God for this situation because not only would Mary be embarrassed, but he would be too.
And then why did he not have had her stoned? Because, he could have.
He didn't have her stoned because he was an honorable man, and so he did not report her pregnancy. And the angel had told him how it was that he and Mary happened to be in this unusual predicament.
But did Joseph have a secret problem with her pregnancy or did he just take it that God knew what he was doing and he wanted to be obedient to him?
Maybe at first he did, because he had actually considered putting her away.(Mathew 1:18) However, after the angel had given him the news, Joseph did has God wanted him to do. He married Mary. No arguing. No bargaining. No anger. Just plain obedience.
When Jesus was born, Joseph raised him as his son. Just like he did the children he and Mary had later. God had indeed chosen the perfect parents to bring Jesus up even though they, being human themselves, were imperfect.
What if Joseph had not obeyed God? What if he had had Mary stoned? What if he had simply just broken up their engagement and claimed not to have had any relations with her. Because, he hadn't.
Of course, it wouldn't have happened those ways or any other then what it did. God did know what he was doing. He was asking Joseph to trust in him to participate in a most supernatural and unusual request
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What about us? What do we do when God asks us to do something? Do we argue? Bargain? Get angry?
Do we refuse?
God sees our own lives in full. He knows who is going to be obedient to him. He knows who will not. But when he asks us do something, he has reasons for it. Maybe we don't even know why he is asking something. But when he asks us to do something for him, as with Joseph, we must trust him. We must obey him.
And we do know one thing if nothing else. If we don't do what he asks, he will ask someone that will. Because, no matter what. He will get done whatever he wills. With or without us,
He was with God in the beginning. John 1:2
Hello Friends. I am sorry that I have not been around for several days. I am back to continue on with what I know God is asking of me.
Tips for a stress free Christmas.
Sometimes we are at a real loss at what what kind of gift to get someone that has about everything. Maybe instead of a gift wrapped in paper, you would consider a special outing to take a person on. Recently my daughter and her husband took us to EPCOT as their gift to us this year. Now I know that something like that is quite expensive and not everyone can afford it.
You might consider some other outing. A special Christmas movie at a theater, a trip to a Christmas festival, or you might consider volunteering with someone in a soup kitchen, as a way of giving a gift to others in their honor. Christmas gifts do not have to come wrapped up in pretty paper and bows. They should surely come from the heart. Just as God's gift to us came as a baby that grew up to take our sins away, His gift came from His heart. We can follow His example and give from our own.
Til next time, God bless you and yours today!
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