Dreams play an important role in Matthew’s account of the birth of Jesus. There are five of them – four to Joseph and one to the Magi. In Joseph’s first dream, the angel gives him some astounding news: His wife, Mary, has conceived a child by the power of God!
Dreams played an important part in the life of another Joseph centuries earlier. When he told his brothers about his dreams, they became jealous. Eventually they sold him to a caravan headed for Egypt. Joseph ended up as a servant of the Pharaoh. Later he won great favor by interpreting the Pharaoh’s dreams.
The story of these two Josephs is the story of God working through human beings. God still does that, and you are one of the human beings through whom God accomplishes his plans.
As routine and plain as your life may seem, God acts through me to accomplish great things. What you do may seem small, but in the eons of God’s plan, it is like the mustard seed “which when full-grown is the largest of plants and puts forth large branches.”
How will God work through you today?
- Little Blue Book, December 18