Matthew 2:1-15

Be Still: Lord, still my heart in your presence today. Open my eyes to see you afresh and my ears to hear you speaking through your Word. Amen

Read: Matthew 2:1-15 

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. (v13-14) 

Encounter: Nobody likes being disturbed in their sleep, but Joseph didn’t even hesitate when the angel of the Lord appeared to him and told him to ‘get up’ and take Mary and Jesus and escape to Egypt. He didn’t have time to think it over or to plan. With urgency, he got up and went. 

Joseph’s obedience is striking. No questions asked, no dramatic speech, no pleading or waiting until morning. Just quiet, humble, radical obedience. Yet it was a step of obedience that protected Jesus’s life and fulfilled God's purposes. 

It challenges us to consider how often we delay obedience because the timing feels inconvenient. Do we try and over complicate or reason our way out of things because they’re costly to us? When God ‘wakes us up’, prompts us to act, calls us out of our comfort zone, do we trust him enough to move? Are we willing to go despite it being uncomfortable? Joseph’s ‘yes’ kept Jesus safe. Who knows what God could do through our ‘yes’?

Apply: Is there something God might be asking of you that feels costly or inconvenient? Take a moment to bring those areas honestly before him. Pray for courage to act in his timing, rather than waiting for a ‘better’ time. Remember, our obedience doesn’t just shape our own lives, but it can be the very thing God uses to protect or bless others.

Devote: Lord wake me up to hear your call and give me the courage to act even when it feels costly or inconvenient. Today I give you my ‘yes’.