In verses 19-20 of Chapter 2 (of Matthew, if you haven’t been following along), and Angel comes to Joseph in a dream and tells him Herod is dead, and to return to Israel. 

Has anyone ever wished that an Angel would come to us either in a dream, or just appear in a non-scary way, and tell us what to do.  Just cut straight to the point, no interpretation needed, just tell it like it is, so we can do what were told!  I have wished this!  Well, we all know it is the rare case, and it probably ain’t gonna happen. 

So who is the lucky one…Joseph or us?

So let’s see the situation he was in;  He was “flying by the seat of his pants” hoping for some direct intervention of what to do.  Jesus teachings were not quite there yet, since Jesus was in the crib crying at 2am (parents can relate…again, can you tell we are trying to get Ethan to sleep through the night lately?)  He had the Old Testament law, which was failing miserably at that point due to the Pharisees and Sadducees manipulating it to their purpose.  Otherwise, all he had was an Angel to direct him.

We have the Bible, which is God’s word to us, to guide us in EVERY action we do.  We have prayer to talk to God without a priest.  We have the Holy Spirit who lifts our requests up to God.  We have Jesus sitting on the right hand of God making petition for us!

We got a lot more than Joseph had at that point.  I would have to say…sounds like we are the Lucky Ones!