God's Perfect Plan; Day 2

The Birth of Jesus Christ

This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit. Because Joseph her husband was a righteous man and did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.

But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."

All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel" —which means, "God with us."

When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. (Matthew 1:18-24)

Have you ever thought about how crazy this sounds? It's positively insane. The whole goal of the Messiah's coming was to liberate God's people and save them from their sins. And we got a baby. How's that supposed to work? it's questions such as these that kept a lot of people from believing in Jesus while he was on earth . But this was God's plan from the beginning. Everyone had there own ideas about how the Messiah would save God's people, but no one saw that only through a perfect sacrifice could people be made whole. Our plans may seem grand and even God-honoring, but only God's plans will stand because only God's plans will work. God knows how to orchestrate everything for the best possible outcome, so we need to learn to trust God's plans over ours - even when we'd like to choose the path ourselves.

Do you trust that God knows how to run your life better than you do?

Who makes the decisions about how you live?