Mathew 1:19
In the autobiography of Kiran Bedi – ‘I dare’, her reaction to being appointed as superintendent of Tihar Jail was, “I am misplaced in this place”. We think on similar lines in our lives. Joseph felt the same way about marrying a pregnant Mary.
But by the end of her stay in Tihar Jail, Kiran Bedi had brought across reformation there and says, “It was God’s plan to put me here”.
At an age when men were considered superior and people saw themselves as God’s messengers, we have a man with a pregnant fiancée. He was a righteous main because he didn’t choose to put Mary to shame. He knew the history of God’s work in the world, but he was scared of the people of the law and hence he decided to leave Mary.
This is when the angel of God appeared to him in his dreams. The dreams of a betrothed person are all rosy. But here is a man who had a different one. It might have been a disturbing one which he could have thrown away as just a dream.
In the eyes of the law, both of them are criminals as they’d think of Mary as an adulteress and Joseph of having committed the sin of marrying an adulteress. But Joseph decided to take it up. He understood the purpose of God through the dream.
Let us be like the star that shone on His birth, to show the way for the shepherds and wise men.
In the autobiography of Kiran Bedi – ‘I dare’, her reaction to being appointed as superintendent of Tihar Jail was, “I am misplaced in this place”. We think on similar lines in our lives. Joseph felt the same way about marrying a pregnant Mary.
But by the end of her stay in Tihar Jail, Kiran Bedi had brought across reformation there and says, “It was God’s plan to put me here”.
At an age when men were considered superior and people saw themselves as God’s messengers, we have a man with a pregnant fiancée. He was a righteous main because he didn’t choose to put Mary to shame. He knew the history of God’s work in the world, but he was scared of the people of the law and hence he decided to leave Mary.
This is when the angel of God appeared to him in his dreams. The dreams of a betrothed person are all rosy. But here is a man who had a different one. It might have been a disturbing one which he could have thrown away as just a dream.
In the eyes of the law, both of them are criminals as they’d think of Mary as an adulteress and Joseph of having committed the sin of marrying an adulteress. But Joseph decided to take it up. He understood the purpose of God through the dream.
Let us be like the star that shone on His birth, to show the way for the shepherds and wise men.
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