“But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, ‘Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost,’” (Matthew 1:20)
Today’s “fear not” is the “fear not” of faith. If ever a man needed faith it was Joseph. He was espoused to a young woman with whom he had not had conjugal relations and she was with child. He knew the child was not his.
While he was trying to decide what to do an angel, a messenger from God, came to him and explained the situation. Mary was carrying the Son of God in her womb.
When we are struggling with the unseen we must have faith in God. We have never seen God but His handiwork is seen everywhere. We have never seen Jesus but we know He is real. We have never seen heaven but we know it is a place of rare beauty and the final destiny of the saved. How do we know these things? “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” (Romans 10:17) The angel, a messenger of God, gave Joseph a foundation for his faith. The written word of God gives us the same foundation. Faith is not a blind leap in the dark. Have faith and “fear not.”
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