Luke 2: 1 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And all went to be registered, each to his own town. 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, 5 to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.
Joseph planned on marrying Mary. He loved her and wanted her as wife. It involved a lot of planning on his part: arranging the marriage with her family, going back to prepare a place for them, and making this unwanted trek to Bethlehem to register, pay taxes, and let the empire know who they were and where they lived. It was a lot. Things did not turn out to be easy: explaining how Mary came to be with child, making this hard journey hear her delivery date, getting them all home safely and keeping them so. But Joseph realized something we need to remember: we are not to fit God's plan into our plan; we are to keep our plans in line with His. He owns the story, and He makes it all turn out the way it ought to be.
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