Week 2 (Beginning 6 Jan) Day 1

Matthew 2.13-18

13 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.”

14 So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, 15 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.”

16 When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. 17 Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:

18 “A voice is heard in Ramah,

weeping and great mourning,

Rachel weeping for her children

and refusing to be comforted,

because they are no more.”

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Personal Reflections Joseph, Mary and baby Jesus faced yet another crisis. Yet in this precarious situation, God already foreknew it and had made preparations. Consider the prophecies that have been fulfilled through this episode in this passage. No crisis is too difficult or impossible for God.

How would this spiritual reality encourage you in what you are encountering these days, especially in the “low’s” of your spiritual?