God Guides Us to Right Where We Need to Be in Our Lives

Verses:  Matthew 2:19-23

My thoughts about the verses:

Imagine being Mary and Joseph.  You first had to accept that you were to be the parents of Jesus, the promised Messiah. It was written that the babe would be born from the line of David.  It went one step further to say that the mother of the Savior would be a virgin.  Mary and Joseph had to come to accept that they were the right people at the right time.

The call went out to all citizens that they must register in the census.  Here again Joseph and Mary were faced with a difficult task.  The time was drawing very near for the birth of their son.  Yet, they had to go there for it had been foretold that the Messiah would be born in this little city.  Bethlehem is the same city in which King David came. 

You can see the look on both of their faces when they discover there is no way to stay.  How could people not find a Place for a woman who is about to deliver a child a place to rest?  Yet, the only space that they were given was a stable owned by an innkeeper.  Inside that stable the Messiah was born. 

You can see them wiping the sweat off their brow thinking it is all over.  Yet, don’t be so quick wise men from the east come following the star that they had longed waited to shine.  The problem is that Herod now wants to know where the Newborn King is so that he can stop what he fears would be the loss of his crown.  The wise men in a dream are directed to go back a different route.  And Joseph and Mary are directed to flee to Egypt.  Again this is something that was foretold in the prophecies of the Messiah that was coming to save the world.  They would need to flee to a foreign land.

Then at last you are finally coming home.  Again God talks to you and tells you to go to Nazareth.  This allows the prophecy to be complete that the Messiah would be known as a Nazarene. Joseph and Mary do not question this direction that they are to go to.  The go to Nazarene and raise their son to be the man that he would one day becomes.  Je would one day come back from Nazarene and be known for this.  For no one believed nothing good could come from this community.  God was showing us all that it isn’t the place that matters it is the person that matters.

I can understand moving from place to place.  When I was younger I found Christ during a vacation bible school at a church that wasn’t where my family attended.  It wasn’t the place that matter.  What mattered is that someone reached my heart and led me to accept that Jesus died for me.

Jesus then moved me from one church to another.  Each place helping me grow closer to God.  Opening door to ministries that God needed to occur.  I had a calling on my heart and God made sure that I was at the right place at the right time to teach people about love.  I spent several years at each Church. 

I was called into my wilderness.  My wilderness was a place in which there was no Church door was opened for me.  Instead God spent those times preparing my soul and heart to fully serve God.  Each one of us may be called into our wilderness.  Our pilgrimages may be a time to gain strength and voice from God.

I at last came to where I thought god had called me to.  I was there for numerous years.  I felt that this was where I could openly and freely serve God.  Yet, overtime God called me again into a new pilgrimage.  I am in that path right now.  God is now leading me to a new place where people need my voice to be heard.   I am walking a line that has uprooted by foundation.  Yet, I know God will finally say this is the place.  In that time I will be the right person and the right and place.

Prayer:

We thank you God for your love.  We thank you for placing us where we need to be in our life.  Help us to remember that we may be called from one place to another.  Help us to remember that when the time and place is right you will let us know.  Help us always be ready to go where you call us; Help us remember that you will give us our voice when it is the right time.  In the name of the Omnipotent God we pray.  Amen

Questions:

Have you asked God into your life?  Are you listening to God to see if you are where you are supposed to be?  Are you willing to go where God is calling you?  Are you in the right place and using your talents that God has given to you?