What about Joseph? Pt. 2

Continuing on....



Let's see, where were we? Oh yes! In walks the Angel of the Lord.



Now to most of us living here in the 21st century this sounds like a scene from a Hunter S. Thompson novel. Angelic apparitions in the middle of the night? Really? But, let's not forget this all took place in a time and culture when religion, faith and every day life itself was based on 4000 years of God visiting the Hebrew people on a regular basis in many forms including many accounts of angels coming as messengers, judges and executioners. Not to say that Joseph probably wasn't shaking in his tallit(prayer shawl, there's your Hebrew lesson for the day). And after 400 years of God being silent to His people, the nation of Israel was surely desperate to hear from their Sovereign Lord. So, even though a visit from an angel was frightening and wonderful, the news Joseph received was that his wife Mary would give to birth to Jesus. The Savior the Hebrews had been promised for generations was now going to be given to Joseph and Mary to care for and raise according to the Jewish tradition.

So, here it is. My question to you.

What would you have done if you were Joseph?

Leave you comments at the end of this post or email me gabe@crossroadscom.org

Make sure to check back frequently to see new comments and feel free to retort. I would like for this page to become and outsource for your opinions, beliefs, doubts, fears, prayers and anything else on your heart. Somewhere out there someone may be feeling the same way you do right now. Know that you are not alone and through the faith and lives of others I pray that each of us can grow in an Undignified Faith.

God bless,
J. Gabriel
Barbarian Disciple

p.s. Check back tomorrow when I finish the post about food. Good stuff for you to chew on there.(Pun intended) Also, I will begin diving into what it means to truly become Undignified for the Lord. 2 Samuel 6:21-22