I love to travel, see new things, new places, new people.  Creation is so amazing.  In Matthew 2, the wise men travel to see Jesus.  Then they travel home.  Herod, knowing that he was betrayed by the wise men, sends a battalion to Bethlehem to kill all male children under 2 years of age.  Before they arrive, Joseph, Mary, and Jesus leave for Egypt.  All of these traveling events, fulfilled Old Testament Scriptures.

 

New parents do not want to travel, I have noticed.  A new lifestyle is beginning with this new child, so is a new routine.  Do not change the routine.  Right ladies.  Baby and mamma comes first.  In this case, there was no choice.  The couple had to go to Egypt to escape Herod’s persecution.  Herod would not go into Egypt because he was afraid of Cleopatra who was close to Mark Anthony a powerful man in the Roman government (politics, even then).

 

After Herod dies, the couple with Jesus travel back but they go to Nazareth again fulfilling Scripture.  A lot of traveling in a time frame of five years.  But notice, that all that traveling fulfilled OT prophecy.  Showing the Jewish reader that this baby is the Messiah.

 

Life is a highway that we travel.  Sometimes a dirt road, sometimes an interstate, but it is a journey.  Every act, every fork, every turn is directed by God.  If we would just stop and look, we would notice HIS hand in our lives as we follow HIM, Beloved.

 

This day look for the guidance of Jesus as you travel this road of life.