There is not much said about Joseph the husband of Mary but he played his part in that great event ,the birth of Jesus,of course he was not the actual father of Jesus.But he was a godly man ,but the question is how do we divine godliness?,well one aspect of his godliness was seen when he found out that Mary was pregnant.He really thought Mary had fallen into sin,this would mean she would be exposed to public disgrace,Joseph did not want that,he wanted to shield her from that. It is in 1 Peter 4 v 8 we read this exhortation,' And above all things have fervent love for one another, for'' love will cover a multitude of sins'',and that's what Joseph did.A church I know had a leader who fell into sin, the main leader was away in business,so the other leaders dealt with it, The brother confessed his sin and repented of it,he was married and his wife forgave him.,the leaders kept it quite. When the main leader came back and heard what happened,he insisted on telling it to the church,he was asked not to do that,as it would destroy that man,but he would not listen,and it had a serious effect on that man and his wife.There is a time for exposing sin,an example is child abuse,but there is also a time to do what Joseph was prepared to do..It was later that Joseph was told by the angel of the Lord,that the child had been conceived by the Holy Spirit.
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