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Celebrating the first 12 months of "Hear the Sound" "Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you- Mary and Joseph were still reeling with the unusual events of the last hours. After perhaps two years their daily routine in Bethlehem with their precious baby boy had been dramatically interrupted with the arrival of the elite pilgrims from afar. Every previous divine announcement had been stirred again by the worshipping visitors who had laid before the Child their lavish gifts of gold, incense, and myrrh. Led by a star, a supernatural sign, these visitors had arrived to their door. Now, left only with the gifts, they heard the echo of that pronouncements of "king" mingling with the words of the angelic messengers: "Saviour", "Immanuel", "Son of God". What confirmation that this Child entrusted to their care was precisely whom angels, shepherds, and now foreign visitors said He was! Not just Joseph's sleep, but their entire lives, were about to be altered again as yet another angelic messenger appeared to Joseph in a dream: "Get up; 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." Joseph did not even wait for morning's light; his obedience was instant: he got up, took the child and his mother, and left. It was nearly unbelievable yet true: they were being called upon to guard God! (Matthew 2:13). They did not risk any presumptuous second-guessing that perhaps heaven would deploy ten thousand angels to protect the promise and the plan of God. They heeded the instruction: "Guard God!" As it was for these ordinary people called by God into His plan, so it is with each of us! We are carrying promises. We are entrusted with divine assignments. We are participating with God! May we be freshly summoned to attention that for every promise there is a predator! We cannot risk leaving our destiny and God's desires dangling around! For us it may be a prophetic word yet unrealized; it may be a ministry or a kingdom pursuit. We dare not slip into neither passivity nor presumption or entertain the false notion that we have the personal option of resentment or self-justification. Let all such small-thinking be set aside. Let pettiness and even personal convenience give way to vigilance! There's more at stake than we may realize! Rise up! Guard God! With rejoicing, Rev. Peggy I. Kennedy
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