There
on the page of a child's book, the story was totally foreign to me.
That
frigid night my son and I sat by the window sill—the cold air bleeding
through the panes, doling out goosebumps. With son on
my knee, we read through the entire Christmas story culled from all three of
the synoptic gospel accounts.
Maybe
it was the simplicity of the book or the setting in which we read, but
something about those words struck me that night.
An angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”
Matthew 2:13
You’ve
probably read this verse before. I know I had.
And
while it might seem like a side note to the story of Christ, it actually holds the key to why Jesus came to earth.
Let
me explain.
