Look at the trust Joseph shows here. There’s no “Are you sure?” or “Can we wait till the morning?” He just gets up, wakes Mary, and they get on the road. That’s what you want in the man in charge of Jesus’ safety. He gets his orders and he does it.
Maybe that’s why it’s so easy to overlook the number of miracles in which Joseph has a part. I count four prophetic dreams overall—and Jesus’ birth, of course. But Joseph does his part so faithfully that he makes it look ordinary. For him, it probably was ordinary. There would have been no way to survive Jesus’ infancy without a strong trust in God.
I’d like to trust God like Joseph did. And knowing Jesus, I can start learning. Because He has never let me down—and He never will. He saw all of us struggling in this broken world under the power of death and evil, and He had compassion on us. He came to us. He lay down His life for us. And He rose again so that we could live forever with Him, in trust and joy.
WE PRAY: Lord Jesus, help me to trust You. Amen.
Reflection Questions:
* How do you know when someone is trustworthy?
* Who do you know who sets a great example of trusting the Lord?
* Tell about a time when you really had to trust in God to make it through.
Advent Devotions were written by Dr. Kari Vo.