"...then Joseph... being a just man, and not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly..."
There is a buzz around gossip. It's a drug, gossip. There is so much "uncovering" and "revealing" of others' reputations on tv, radio, in the papers, and across the www that it would cause one to think that, if you are not involved in the latest buzz, then you don't know anything.
Christians are called to a higher standard. Like Joseph, we are called to deal with things in ways that diffuse the spirit of the world with gentleness and grace. We are called to meet uncomfortable situations - situations that would create an endorphin buzz in the community - with care, discretion, dignity, and honor.
Not entirely unlike the way God has dealt with us.
It's a choice, to be like Joseph, that is. His partner was pregnant by another man. He could have shouted it from the mountains. But he simply chose not to.
He didn't know about it then. Given time, he would. Soon after his resolve to honor the his potentially forsaken wife, he would come to learn that his partners womb had become transformed into the very throne of God.
He was protecting far more than he could have ever imagined.
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