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Today's Reading: Matthew 2: 13-23
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Please click this link to read John 2: 13-23
Bible Study
Today's passage is full of important messages. N.T. Wright says, "If Jesus is to be Emmanuel, God-with-us, he must be with us where the pain is. That's what this chapter is about."
Joseph and Mary were so painful to be chased by Herod wanting to kill them and the baby. It's more painful for them to know that because of their baby, all the babies around that area were being slaughtered. When everything seems settled they had to run again! So painful!
In those painful moments, if you read today's passage carefully you can see how God prepared Jesus parents to have a "super" faith that is beyond human understanding. See the personal relationship of Joseph and God that three times he got God's timing right trusting that that was a real angel in his "dream" and that every time he got the message he got up and go! Can you do that? That's the difference can be so powerful working for His Kingdom ministry and why there are so many people stuck in their lives unable to move forward peacefully and powerfully!
Which group of people do you belongs to?
Have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"
Spiritual Journal
What I heard from Jesus today is: How to catch God's instruction?
What I got from Jesus today is so important. It's the "timing"? When to do this, when to do that, when not to do this and when not to do that! Lots of time we are being stuck in this kind of daily decision. Because we never know sometimes a decision may means live or die! Just like if you are driving and in split of a second of your wrong decision can cause your life and many other people's lives.
We are coming back to a simple Jesus' formula: Listen and Obey.
That's it!
To be able to listen you need your daily intimate personal relationship with Jesus.
To be able to obey you need to have the courage to say YES right away. Just like Joseph in all three verses, vv. 14, 21 and 22. "So he got up!"
Wow, because of your not willing to get up. You can not receive God's instruction any more. Disobedience and laziness lead us to become stuck in our own human weaknesses.
So, get up and do what Jesus just told you! Right away!
Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to be able to just simpler live out listen and obey that we and other people will be blessed by our listen and obey and that your Kingdom will be extended. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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