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You may have
dreamed an impossible dream only to have it turn into a nightmare. You have a
world of responsibilities sitting on your shoulders and you’re just not sure
you can handle it all. Do what Joseph did when facing the impossible. Bring
Jesus into your home and invite him into your heart. He doesn’t know the word
impossible because with him all things are possible.
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Then in an “impossible” dream, Joseph
received a revelation from heaven telling him that Mary, his betrothed, was
going to bear God’s son.
An angel of the Lord instructed Joseph not
to shame her, but to marry her and raise the Son of God as his own child.
In this dream, God revealed that the coming
baby was the promised one, the Messiah.
But was the dream really a nightmare for
Joseph?
Joseph must have wrestled with all that
this news implied.
For the rest of his life he might live with
the whispers that he hadn’t been able to wait until the marriage bed, or,
worse, that he was raising another’s child.
For a righteous man like Joseph, the
prospect of living with this shame might have been just as impossible to
understand as a pregnant virgin.
Joseph probably considered the weight of
responsibility – and its impact on his fiancée, Mary.
How could he teach God’s Son anything?
Would the Son of God want to play?
Would he lead the Son of God in prayer?
How would their own children feel?
And God blessed him, entrusting him with
Jesus, who surely must have been a profound joy to have as his child.
When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel
of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife.
But he did not consummate their marriage
until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus. Matthew 1:24-25
You may have dreamed an impossible dream
only to have it turn into a nightmare.
Perhaps it was the dream of a perfect child
who has turned into a challenging teenager.
Maybe you dreamed of a new start but are
now struggling to make a blended family work.
Perhaps the whispers of others are shouting
louder than their words of praise.
You have a world of responsibilities
sitting on your shoulders and you’re just not sure you can handle it all.
Bring Jesus into your home and invite him
into your heart. He doesn’t know the word impossible because with him all
things are possible.
Reflection
What “impossible” news do you face?
What comfort do you
find in the angel’s words, “Do not be
afraid?”
If you haven’t asked Jesus to reside in
your heart, say a prayer now, asking him now to take up residence.
Ask him to make the impossible possible by filling you with his Spirit and by giving you new life.
Devotional
drawn from the NIV Women’s Devotional Bible.
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