Text: Matthew 2: 12-23
King Herod plans to kill Jesus because he feels his position is threatened. God is faithful and just. He seeks out Joseph and through a dream takes him to Egypt. Later all Children below two years are massacred. Terrible times for all families! Does that remind you of a certain king in Egypt? He also used to kill children of Israelites, but still God is faithful. After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, “…Rise, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child’s life are dead” (v.20, ESV).
Meditate on verse 20 and 22. What is God teaching you in these verses?
Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, help me to always listen to the leading of
the Holy Spirit. Amen.