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When we think of the Christmas story, what do we know about Joseph? He lived in Nazareth of Galilee. He worked with his hands. He was a good man. His fiancée was godly young Mary. He liked to do things quietly. More remarkable? An angel of the Lord spoke to him in dreams not once or twice, but four times. The first time, the angel told him not to fear God’s miraculous plan to visit earth through His Son already conceived by the Holy Spirit in his fiancée Mary. Perhaps a few months later, shortly after the visit of the Magi, the angel told Joseph to get up immediately and flee to Egypt with Mary and Jesus. Perhaps a year later, the angel appears to Joseph in a third dream, telling him to return to Israel. In a companion dream a short time later, Joseph is told to take Mary and Jesus farther north back to Galilee. In the end, they return to their hometown, Nazareth. So, what do we know about Joseph? He is a man of action, immediately he got up in the middle of the night to obey God. What I find remarkable is that Scripture doesn’t record a single word that Joseph said. What matters most, I guess, is being good, being a godly man, a man of obedience, a man or woman of action. This is Andrew Palau.