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God reaching down when you need Him most…
Matthew 1:20 But
after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a
dream…(NIV)
Although we have
inventions and technology unheard of two thousand years ago, the human race has
made little if any progress in terms of our being able to live with and love each other. What we
have in common with Mary and Joseph, with the wise men, with the shepherds, and
with ordinary people two thousand years ago is that we have worries, fears,
anxieties, dashed hopes, broken dreams, and doubts about God. We also share more
positive parts of our life with people who lived two thousand years ago like our
ability to hope, our ability to have hearts overflowing, and our ability to
possess absolute certainty about what we believe. What we also have in common
with persons who lived two thousand years ago is a God who still loves us and
who still walks with us and talks with us if we are willing to walk with Him and
talk with Him. We still have a God, a being of infinite wisdom and grace, who
will still reach down and touch our hearts when we need Him most. What is so
often difficult for us to understand is why God does not always do what we want
or deliver to us what we think we need. What we must understand about God is
that God knows more than we do. What we must understand about God is that God
can see all that is, all that can be, and all that ever will be. In our
understanding about God, we must also learn to trust God. We must learn to trust
God with our life, our future, and all that exists in our world that is within
His will and within His love. If God does not communicate to you in a dream as
He did with Joseph, perhaps it is because God knows you do not need a dream. If
God does not communicate to you in a dream, perhaps God knows you can handle
your life just fine the way it is…with you and our Lord Jesus walking side by
side down His path. |
