Wednesday: Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Mathew wrote: When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.” So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
It’s kind of crazy to think that the God who created the earth was a refugee, escaping through the desert to survive.
Mathew wrote: After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child’s life are dead.” So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel.
I see Mary, Joseph and Jesus being meek in two ways:
They were poor, powerless people (in human terms) with the king looking to kill them. They had to leave the country just to survive.The first three beatitudes are about God blessing us in the midst of chaos: spiritually poor, mourning, and without power. I think Jesus was born into that chaos as part of God’s plan. Why?
They obediently did what God asked them to do – they let Him be in charge.
Paul wrote: In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death - even death on a cross!
God, thank you for entering the world to connect with me and save me. Bless all the people I know who have connected with you - help them to show others who you are.
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