This year 2014, I am starting a Bible reading plan from my You Version app. It allows you to read 4 chapters a day and in one year you will be able to read the whole Bible (again). I started today and I am too excited to share with you the highlight of what i gleaned from the readings. I encourage you to go through your preferred Bible reading plan and hope we can share with each other what we are learning.
Today I read Genesis 1, Matthew 1, Ezra 1 and Acts 1.
Here is the highlight from Matthew 1. It tells us the prologue of Jesus' birth. In this section, Joseph was just engaged to be married to Mary yet she was already found pregnant through the Holy Spirit. Being a gentleman and not wanting to disgrace Mary, he made a plan to just quietly divorce her later. But God talked to Joseph in a dream, and then he knew the whole story behind Mary's pregnancy. And here is the part that impressed me most about him: as soon as he woke up from the dream, immediately he followed/obeyed what he was told to do.
Joseph is one Bible character who did not have much "airtime". After Jesus was born, nothing much was mentioned about him unlike Mary who was in the picture until Jesus' death and resurrection.
However it is remarkable how Joseph modeled true obedience to us even before he married Mary, even before Jesus was born. And obviously he knew God's voice to obey Him that instantly. He must have had an intimate relationship with God.
I desire to be like him: to distinctly know God's voice when He speaks to me and to obey Him instantly and cheerfully. To trust that God knows best always.
Notes from my Journal
January 2, 2014
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