“So Joseph got up and took the Child and His mother while it was still night, and left for Egypt” (Matthew 2:14).
It is almost as if the Lord is retracing the steps backwards through time, away from the Jewish kings, through the wilderness where the law was given, and into the slavery of Egypt. Jesus has come to fulfill prophecy and make all things new. This is done amidst the fight against principalities and forces that hate God and desire to see complete destruction and rejection of all that the Lord has established.
To what lengths will the Lord go to resurrect you into the new life? The price He paid for your redemption is in the story of the Gospel. He did these things so that you would have the opportunity to live life now and forever as it is meant to be lived. Empowered by Him, there are others who were faithful and helped to make things happen as they needed to happen.
Lord, I am here, listening to Your word, because of others who have faithfully carried the Gospel message to me. Some of them have done so through great peril to themselves. Help me to join with the communion of saints knowing that You have come to redeem all of those who will journey with you through all the sinfulness of this world in order to be made new. Make me new in You, Lord Jesus. Amen.
