Thursday, December 17, 2015

A MEASURE OF INTEGRITY IN A MAN


What on Earth would you do if a beautiful lady you have been dating for a long time , you have invested your time in her, you have left all others to focus on her until all the village knows that the two of you are love birds, deliberately becomes pregnant and pretends that 
1.She doesn't know what is going on yet her body shape is changing and the stomach is getting bigger?  
2. She insists that she is still a virgin WHEN common sense, all Biology, all Chemistry and 'Geography' dictates that a woman gets pregnant through only one way-being with a man-?
What would you do if you lived in a society that was so religiously legalistic that if a young lady is found to have had sex yet not married and the LAW explicitly states that; 
if this charge is true, that the girl was not found a virgin, 21 then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father's house; thus you shall purge the evil from among you (Deuteronomy 22:20-21)?
What would you do ? As far as I am concerned I would tell all my friends about this betrayal and post everything on FACEBOOK to shame her and make her pay for it. That is the reality of the present MAN full of ego and pride covered with sin and greed. JOSEPH the Forster father of Jesus is the man in the hypothetical situations I have given above. He was engaged to Mary and looked forward to a beautiful wedding but learnt that the bride was pregnant yet in his heart he knew he had never slept with her. AS A MEASURE OF INTEGRITY AND TRUE LOVE the Bible says this...

19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly.But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” Matthew 1:19-21
Many a men would not stomach such a betrayal and I confess that I admire Joseph and I pray that the Lord transform me and gives me such a measure of grace to enable me build muscles of integrity to respect and yearn to protect those close to me and not run to shame others.

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