13 After the scholars were gone, God's angel showed up again in Joseph's dream and commanded, "Get up. Take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt. Stay until further notice. Herod is on the hunt for this child, and wants to kill him." 14 Joseph obeyed. He got up, took the child and his mother under cover of darkness. They were out of town and well on their way by daylight. 15 They lived in Egypt until Herod's death.. ..19 Later, when Herod died, God's angel appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt: 20 "Up, take the child and his mother and return to Israel. All those out to murder the child are dead." 21 Joseph obeyed. He got up, took the child and his mother, and reentered Israel.
Without the human drama this story doesn’t touch our lives. It sounds like a fairy tale which might have happened once, but which could never happen again to or with us.
Joseph makes real for us the struggle of God coming to us - and asking us to do something we would never do by ourselves. God touches us in ways which require risk. It is when we risk that we discover God’s will for us.
Often this means that we follow our feelings; that deep urging from within.
For faith, as P.T. Forsythe defined it, “is a power and passion in authority among the powers and passions of life”. It is one of the strongest challenges in our lives. It turns us on to the spirit of God who is trying to get us to ‘go to Egypt’...to risk our lives in order that we might really find our purpose, and really live!
“Faith is a kind of knowing that
doesn’t need to know for certain…”
Fr. Richard Rohr
Prayer though for the week: “Lord, help me to live by faith and risk loving you in all I say and do.”
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