Joseph, the husband of Mary, in the Bible is a picture of a man who faced with enormous questions and uncertainty, discovers peace and the ability to make the best of a difficult situation. Joseph is a good God-fearing man, who discovers that his wife to be is pregnant and he knows that he is NOT the father. So, what do you do? Well Joseph decided that the best thing to do was to call it all off without making a huge fuss. It was a good way to respond, because he could have had Mary condemned as an adulterer and made a huge fuss about his own innocence. Preserving the family name at all cost was the cultural expectation. And then in the midst of it all, an angel tells Joseph to go ahead with the wedding, The child is a gift from God who will save his people. So Joseph marries Mary and takes on himself all the gossip and recriminations for having a girlfriend who is pregnant. Joseph does what is right in the eyes of God and experiences God’s peace in the midst of a difficult situation. I wonder what God would have you do and how you might experience his peace in your life.
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This Sunday @ 10am This coming Sunday we begin our Advent series To the Manger’. This week we are looking at Matthew 1 and the story of Joseph.
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