It's 3:00 AM, Wife!

Then Joseph, being aroused from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took to him his wife, and did not know her till she had brought forth her firstborn Son. And he called His name JESUS. Matthew 1:24-25

Up to this point, Joseph had been thinking a quiet divorce would fit the bill for Mary's sake. However, he has the first of his angel dreams and it comes with a command. We might assume that ol' Joe waited for the dawn, but the scripture says that he was aroused from sleep - could just as well have been earlier. Of course it may have been tough to find her room as Joseph didn't even know her at the time. Yeah, we're not that slow. Imagine Mary being awakened by her betrothed in the dark of the night by a shout at the window, "It's 3:00 am, wife!" However it happened, the Lord worked it out between the mother of His Son and her husband.

I wonder if those angel dreams of Joseph's were precipitated by Mary's dad dismissing his future son in law as a 'dreamer'...

Love to you this Christmas season!

Bucky