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Many of us have searched our family genealogy to find out who our ancestors were and where we came from. We have in the back of our minds this dream, perhaps, that we are descended from someone famous or wealthy. Consider for a moment a non-descript carpenter from Nazareth being greeted by an Angel of the Lord as “Joseph, son of David.” Some of us would give anything for that kind of ancestry – to be a descendant of “the man after God’s own heart.”

Who is this man Joseph? He is a Godly man, honorable, soon to be married, and at the moment of the angelic visitation, desperately seeking God’s face. His betrothal to Mary has taken a disconcerting turn. He is faced with a dilemma. From the moment he is greeted by the angel until he settles back in Nazareth he is directed to take Mary as his wife (with all the ramifications), warned of danger to their lives, and in the course of events is told to move three times – twice for a very great distance on foot and by donkey.

Before he becomes a husband in fact, he is told he is going to be a father - and not just any father – a father to the Son of God. That’s what God had in mind all along was for us to be fathered. Since it doesn’t happen that way for many of us, Jesus came Himself to show us the way home. “He who has seen Me has seen the Father.” Selah

John 14:9, Matthew 1-2, Luke 2 Scriptures from NKJV