Behold the King Who Steps Into Our Waiting: In the Book of Matthew

Advent has a way of slowing us down, whether we want it to or not. The lights come out, the days get shorter, and something inside us starts paying attention again. This year, for some reason, the Lord has significantly slowed everything down for me. Even though I’m still leading a discipleship ministry, knee-deep in a doctoral program at Asbury, and raising four kids (one who is a borderline adult!), my life feels slower. Perhaps it’s because God is reshaping my intentionality. Over the past few years, I’ve had to learn that I need to be particular about where God uses me. And honestly, working through the Behold Path has helped me do exactly that.

Back in 2022, the word the Lord kept whispering to me was “intentional.” And as I learned that our God is intentional—and His Son intentional in every step of His earthly ministry—I found myself seeking that same intentionality in my own life.

And maybe that’s why Matthew opens his Gospel the way he does—not with glitter, not with angels singing, but with a long list of names and stories woven together by one quiet thread: