Luke 1:26-27 NLT

In the sixth month of Elizabeths pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a village in Galilee, to a virgin named Mary. 

She was engaged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of King David.

Luke 1:26-27 NLT

Luke weaves together the stories of these two women, Elizabeth, who traces her story all the way back to Aaron, and Mary, who all we know about is that she is going to marry Joseph.

Joseph, who is a traces his story back to King David...in Luke 3, all the way back to Adam.

While Joseph becomes Jesus Dad, it is by what we might call adoption.

Jesus is adopted into his family, accepted, loved.

If being adopted is your experience, then you're in good company. Of you've adopted a child, then Joseph is a great role model.

And Paul uses the language of adoption to describe us being adopted into God's family, weaving us all together...

The redemptive strands go all the way back to Adam, perhaps today to remind us that we're part of the Big Story too, woven in, adopted in, accepted, and dearly loved.

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