God Called

Spring/Easter 2025

Friday, April 4 2025

Series: Changes

Hosea 11:1-2 ESV

Matthew 2:13-15 ESV

Imagine if you will a father who desperately and deeply loves his child. This father would do anything possible to protect this child. He would make sure the child had food, clothing, and supplies the child needs.

The father would teach the child everything that would help and protect the child.

The problem the Father encountered with his child is that the child did not listen. The child repeatedly disobeyed the Father.

Even when the advise was sound and would keep the child safe, the child was obstinate and made the opposite choice.

The father was beside himself because he loved the child. The constant disobedience hurt the father deeply.

We are told in Hosea 11:1-2, “When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.

The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols.”

Now consider this…

No matter what Father God did, Israel refused to listen.

Father God continued to send Prophets to help his children but they didn’t listen.

They disobeyed, they didn’t listen, they dug in their heels and went their own way.

So, for four hundred years Father God was silent.

No prophets were sent.

Silence reigned.

Finally the time came for Father to do the only thing he could do. He sent his Holy Son to earth. He could have sent his son as a grown man but instead he sent his Holy Son as a child who would experience everything a human experiences.

In Matthew 1:13-15 we are told, “Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.” And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”

Even though Father God knew his Holy Son would face danger and even death, he sent his only son to help his precious children to find their way.

Father God did that because he loved his wayward children and he wanted to show them the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6).

In Jesus, Deborah

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