Responding in Faith

The Christmas account is full of examples of people responding in faith to that which God tells them. The wise men choosing to travel for months in faith that they would find the newborn King at journey’s end; the shepherds leaving their flocks to go to Bethlehem, in faith that the angel’s proclamation of the Messiah’s birth was indeed true; Joseph, choosing in faith to take Mary as his wife, choosing to please God, though it meant suffering the disapproval and shame of friends and family.

But t...