Daily D – Matthew 1:18-25
Matthew 1:18-15 The birth of Jesus Christ came about this way: After his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, it was discovered before they came together that she was pregnant from the Holy Spirit. So her husband, Joseph, being a righteous man, and not wanting to disgrace her publicly, decided to divorce her secretly.
But after he had considered these things, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because what has been conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”
Now all this took place to fulfill what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet: See, the virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and they will name him Immanuel, which is translated “God is with us.”
When Joseph woke up, he did as the Lord’s angel had commanded him. He married her but did not have sexual relations with her until she gave birth to a son. And he named him Jesus. (CSB)
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Two simple responses—“Thy will be done” and “My will be done—have shaped all of history.
Adam and Eve famously chose My Will Be Done. We are familiar with the results and consequences of their choice.
Entering our earthly drama in Matthew 1 is a man named Joseph. He lived with a Thy Will Be Done mindset. It was his settled disposition. This man of silent strength, we never hear a word from his lips, thought deeply about what God said should be done in the circumstances in which he found himself. Mary was pregnant, and he was not the father. He plotted the hard right path. He prepared for the dissolution of his relationship with the one he had waited for, and he found the quietest way possible to protect her from humiliation.
“But after he had considered these things, . . .” God intervened and redirected his steps. What was happening with Mary was God’s doing. It was no sin and no mistake. God’s eternal purpose was working itself out in Joseph and Mary’s story.
Joseph and his Thy Will Be Done mindset woke up and did as God commanded. Silent obedience declares more truth than thirty minutes of pontification ever could. What happened next was the overture to the Symphony of Heaven. The Great Reversal was beginning.
God took two young people with Thy Will Be Done dispositions and worked through their lives to bless the whole world.
You and I choose day by day and moment by moment if we are going to live like Mary and Joseph or Adam and Eve. We choose like Joseph and Mary, Thy Will Be Done, or we choose like Adam and Eve, My Will Be Done. The only way to live our most fulfilling lives is the pathway of Thy Will Be Done. What God wants for us is forever better than anything we want for ourselves.
Take a moment and determine your disposition today. Will you enhance the beauty of our world with light and life? Or, will you add to the growing darkness and tastelessness so readily on display? Here’s hoping for a little more heaven on earth.
Jesus grew up and taught us a model prayer. It’s recorded in this same Gospel account in 6:9-13. Verse 10 says,
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
God’s will, God’s way, in God’s timing. This is how to build a better life, a better home, a better workplace, and a better world.
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I will live with a Thy Will Be Done mindset.
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Our Father, your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Use us to add salt and light, laughter and joy wherever we go today. May our lives put you fully on display. Amen.
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