1. Jesus’s travel to Egypt reminds us that we are a missionary people, together as we pray and send, individually as God plumps us down in the midst of situations in which he calls on us to give witness to him and to the trust in him that sustains us in daily life.
  2. It is precisely from the cross that the glory of God shines most brightly into our lives, as dark and sinister as Golgotha appears from a sinful distance. Cross trumps crisis.
  3. All sinners hunger for the assurance that Christ did not die in vain but for them.
  4. Who would have expected that God is a God of surprises?
  5. Wrestling alone puts us always at a disadvantage and every wrestling face-off needs a referee. Pastors are called to be such referees for their people.

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