Day 3 Unexpected Obedience: Joseph's Quiet Yes
A righteous man chooses obedience over reputation.
Matthew 1:19–20 TPT
“Her fiancé, Joseph, was a righteous man full of integrity and he didn’t want to disgrace her, but when he learned of her pregnancy he secretly planned to break the engagement. While he was still debating with himself about what to do, he fell asleep and had a supernatural dream. An angel from the Lord appeared to him in clear light and said, “Joseph, descendant of David, don’t hesitate to take Mary into your home as your wife, because the power of the Holy Spirit has conceived a child in her womb.”
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📓 “After the Dream”
I didn’t expect to wake up with tears in my eyes. Last night’s dream wasn’t like the others. It wasn’t the usual tangle of thoughts from a long day in the workshop.
This… this was different.
I saw him… radiant, unmistakably from God… standing in the doorway of my sleep, speaking clarity into the chaos that’s been tightening around my chest since Mary told me she was pregnant… Pregnant. By the Holy Spirit, she said. I wanted to believe her, but belief felt like trying to hold water in my hands. I’ve replayed her words over and over. Her eyes didn’t lie… But my world did crack.
Before last night, I had made my decision: I would end the betrothal quietly. Not because I stopped loving her… God knows I haven’t… But because it felt like the only way to protect her honor and salvage what little dignity I had left.
But then the dream…
“Joseph, descendant of David, don’t hesitate to take Mary into your home as your wife.”
Not afraid? I’ve never felt fear like this. Not of her… but of stepping into a story I don’t understand. A child not conceived by me. A future I cannot predict. A plan I never asked for.
Yet when the angel spoke, something entered me… a courage I didn’t summon. A peace I can’t explain. A certainty that didn’t come from logic, but from the God of our fathers.
Suddenly everything made sense… and nothing made sense… all at the same time.
Mary wasn’t unfaithful. She was chosen. And somehow, so was I. Chosen to raise a child who isn’t mine, Chosen to carry a responsibility I don’t feel qualified for, Chosen to love a woman carrying a promise larger than either of us.
I still have questions. More than I can count:
How will we tell our families?
What will the village think when Mary begins to show?
Will they believe the truth?
Will they mock us?
Will they threaten us?
But I know this: I’d rather walk into uncertainty with God than stay in a certainty without Him.
So today, I will do what the angel commanded. I will take Mary as my wife. I will guard her. I will shield her. I will trust the God who entrusted this child to us. I don’t need all the answers. I just need His presence… and He gave me that in the dream.
So here I am: A carpenter with trembling hands, chosen to raise the Messiah.
Lord, give me strength for this calling. Give me wisdom beyond my years. Give me courage when doubt whispers loud. And remind me, when fear tries to take hold, that You saw something in me I couldn’t see in myself.
Joseph
Heaven notices every quiet yes. Nothing surrendered in obscurity is wasted.
🪞Reflection:
Joseph obeys God in a direction that makes zero sense on paper. No spotlight. No platform. Just a quiet yes that altered the entire story of redemption. Some of God’s greatest assignments come disguised as inconveniences.
🔍 Where is God asking you to obey quietly, without applause or clarity?
🙏 Prayer:
Lord, give me Joseph’s courage… the strength to obey You even when the story You’re writing looks nothing like the one I planned.
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