I was thinking today as I left the house this morning what it must have been like for Joseph. To hear that the women he was to marry was already pregnant. Not with his child but a long expected Messiah... back then the first born son got all the inheritance of his father. it was a huge deal to be the first born. we see this in the old testament story Ishmael found in the book of Genesis. His brother Isaac who was born second got the full birth rights of the first born. Something to ponder as you think that God gave us his one and only Son... we get that inheritance that Christ received as the first born son.
I was also thinking of what Joseph was like as a dad... we know that Mary and Joseph had other children after Jesus. But if you read the Scriptures closely. None of their other children accepted Jesus for who He was till after His resurrection. This isn't to say that Joseph was a horrible father but it gives us as parents hope. That even the father of Jesus wasn't perfect. But yet, God chose him to be the one to teach Jesus the things that a father teaches their children, including his trade as a carpenter. We all have a hope of how our children are going to turn out. We hope that all of them will accept Jesus as their personal savior. We hope...
Matthew 1:24-25 says, "When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus."
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