This week’s readings are based on the “Behold” sermon series. For this series, we are looking at what it truly means to BEHOLD, gaze at, grasp, relish, internalize, and rejoice in Jesus Christ. Start beholding right now by giving thanks for this time with God. Then start reading the text and letting it read you.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us). When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife, but knew her not until she had given birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus.
Matthew 1:18-25 (ESV)

Can you imagine the doubts Joseph is having? A pregnant virgin wife, a potential breakup of their relationship, and all their friends/family watching. On top of that, the unknown of trying to figure out what God is doing in the midst of all this. You probably haven’t experienced the same situation, but you know those feelings. Sometimes the mess and the doubts we experience in life seem bigger than God. The good news is that God is bigger than all of our worries, doubts, messes, and pain. He can handle it all and invites us to bring it to Him. Which seems bigger right now, the situations you are walking through or God? Do you believe that God is bigger than your doubts? Prayerfully ponder these questions.