Every significant moment with God redefines our path to know God. God has been the liberator, “The Lord who brought us out of the land of Egypt.” There is a new way of looking up to God after the exile, “The Lord who led back from where they have been dispersed to their own land.” God is our integrity, justice, righteousness. Those who live up to that experience of God, God becomes very much real in their life, attitudes, and flesh. God is Emmanuel, God-with-us. Gospel sets a new path in the newness of life with God, “by the tender mercy of God a new light will be given to those who live in darkness and the shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
Such a path of peace can already be seen in the heart of Joseph. There is the key to the mercy and love Joseph showed to Mary. Try to see Joseph making the steps to receive Mary without the clarification from the angel. If Mary loved the Word with a love beyond all telling in her flesh and deeds, Joseph must have lived the Word in his flesh and deed in justice and mercy. Scripture rightly testifies that he was a just man.
Dec 18, 2021 Jeremiah 23:5-8 Matthew 1:18-24
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