Matthew 26:17-18 NLT

On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked,

"Where do you want us to prepare the Passover meal for you?"

"As you go into the city," he told them,

"you will see a certain man. 

Tell him, 

'The Teacher says: 

My time has come, 

and I will eat the Passover meal with my disciples at your house.'"

Matthew 26:17-18 NLT

Jesus is way ahead of his team, has somehow super naturally communicated with a person in the city that the Passover meal is going to happen at his place with at least an extra 13 people.

There was a Bigger Story at play here that the disciples couldn't see. 

Jesus is way ahead of us too - preparing a place for us.

At Christmas we celebrate Jesus birth, The Gift, and yet the people in the middle of that story can't have seen or known fully what they were part of. Yet they kept stepping forward in faith, having been visited by angels and dreams, perhaps just like the person who's house was going to be taken over for Passover.

There's a Bigger Story at play that we're part of. It includes Passover, The Gift, and Jesus death and resurrection. The Big Story doesn't end in any of those places but continues and includes us and our stories.

And in our story, just like Mary, Joseph, the home owner, we are asked to trust in the Big Story.

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