I am spending 2025 walking through the Gospels from beginning to end, looking for the moments where Jesus leaned in, lifted up, and loved without hesitation. I want to understand how His grace works in everyday life and what it invites me to become.
Some stories feel like quiet miracles hidden inside moments of fear, and Matthew 2 reads exactly like that. One night an angel speaks to Joseph in a dream, and everything changes. He wakes, gathers Mary, lifts Jesus into his arms, and sets out for Egypt under the cover of darkness. A young family on the run. A journey no one would choose, and yet one that carries the weight of a promise.
I picture the long road ahead of them. The tired steps. The uncertainty. The whispered prayers in the quiet spaces between sunrise and nightfall. And I could not help but wonder how many times we, too, find ourselves walking into the unknown simply because obedience asks us to trust what we cannot see.
Then Matthew shifts, and the story turns heavier. Herod, furious and threatened, orders the unthinkable. The cries in Bethlehem echo through history, a reminder that the world Jesus entered was full of danger and heartbreak. Yet even in the sorrow, God was working. Protecting. Guiding. Holding the story together when it looked like everything was falling apart.
After Herod dies, an angel appears again. Another dream. Another journey. Joseph brings his family back, settling in Nazareth where life will begin to unfold quietly. A carpenter. A village. A childhood shaped in simplicity.
And I could not help but think that sometimes the most sacred moments are the ones that look ordinary from the outside. Escape. Return. A home restored. The steady rhythm of a family learning to breathe again.
Maybe that is the gift of this passage. God is present in every step of the journey, from the nights we flee to the mornings we return. From the ache of the unknown to the relief of a safe place to rest.
Key Verse:
“Out of Egypt I called my son.” Matthew 2:15
Gracefully yours,
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