Into Whose Hands Did God Place His Son?

Wow!! This week, God truly shook my mindset. I am a mother to the umpteenth degree. Thus, for me, Mary has always been automatically declared the one into whose hands God entrusted His son. That was until a few days ago when God enlightened me. Think with me.

Mary and Joseph travelled to Bethlehem for Caesar’s census. Mary was considered an outcast, as she was carrying a child out of wedlock. Society scorned her. So, she and Joseph were travelling alone. Their family, out of shame, wanted to be nowhere near them. Once arrived in Bethlehem, there here was no room for them in the Inn. A stable was their only shelter. No midwife, let alone family member, was even present to assist with Christ’s birth. Joseph, and Joseph alone, was with Mary when Baby Jesus’s arrival took place. Thus, I ask you, into whose hands did God first place Jesus, His Son, who came to save the world?

Joseph, Christ’s stepfather, delivered Jesus, and it was into his hands that God placed His son. Unquestionably, Joseph was first to hold Jesus. Reflect on this. Oh, how our world so needs to ponder this fact. We live in a society where to a fast-growing majority, fatherhood is almost obsolete. However, we cannot deny that God first placed Jesus into an earthly father’s hands. Joseph was the one initially charged with caring for the Savior of the world. God did not do this by accident. God does nothing by accident. 

Man has a huge shortcoming in recognizing God’s messages, but God does not fall short in signaling to man what He longs for them to understand. Fathers are the foundation of family. Be it biological or stepchild, a father is God’s initial, delegated parent into whose hands He places His children. In corroboration, it was into Joseph’s, not Mary’s, hands that God delivered His Son. 

Would understanding this change the world? Maybe. I pray so. I have no magic answers, but after God shared this revelation with me, my entire being longs for others to comprehend and value this epiphany. Shouldn’t we as a society seek to encourage men to understand God delivered His son into their hands, or is it enough to just consider it a woman’s blessing? Would men walk away so easily from fatherhood if they realized Joseph’s, not Mary’s, hands received the Christ child?

My heart and soul have witnessed so many babies’ welfare threated by being born into life with an absent father. Would that all might somehow fathom that God gave His Son to a stepfather’s hands before His mother’s arms could embrace Him. Our world needs to change for children to be able to securely grow. Maybe this change could better be had if men (women, too) pondered in their hearts and souls into whose hands God chose to place His Son.