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Wednesday... There may be a perfectly good explanation.


Wednesday... There may be a perfectly good explanation.

But it is so easy for us to jump to conclusions, isn't it? Proverbs 25:8 (MSG) says, "Don't jump to conclusions - there may be a perfectly good explanation for what you just saw." 

I just finished the last book in the Bible and I started today in Matthew, the first book in the New Testament of the Bible and I saw in this chapter where an important character was ready to jump to a conclusion about his wife. 

Matthew 1:10-18 (MSG) says, "The birth of Jesus took place like this. His mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph. Before they enjoyed their wedding night, Joseph discovered she was pregnant. (it was by the Holy Spirit, but he didn't know that.)" So what conclusion would you jump to in a situation like that? What would you be thinking if you were Joseph?

We think we are so smart and we see things happening and it is so easy for us to jump to conclusions and spread what we think out to everyone we can tell. It makes us feel good about ourselves. But there just might be a perfectly good explanation.

What would you have thought and what would you have done if you were Joseph? I can't believe she would do this to me. 

But here is what Joseph did. Verse 19 says, "Joseph, to whom she was engaged, was a righteous man and did not want to disgrace her publically, so he decided to break the engagement quietly." But we too many times are ready to tell the world because we jump to conclusions.

Oh, I know, in this kind of situation in all honesty there was only one conclusion but was that true?

Verses 20 - 21 says, "As he considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. 'Joseph, son of David,' the angel said, 'do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife. For the child within her was conceived by the Holy Spirit. And she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."

And then verses 24-25 says, "When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded and took Mary as his wife. But he did not have sexual relations with her until her son was born. And Joseph named him Jesus."

And all I can say is, "Wow." Now that was an explanation way out of reason but it was a God directed explanation that in no way would Joseph or any of us have even thought of. But God ways are so many times way beyond human explanation. And Joseph was obedient.

Listen, maybe there is a perfectly good explanation and it would be way better if we didn't jump to conclusions and spread all around what we think.  Have we ever done that with our spouse, with our kids, with our friends, with our neighbors, and even with God? That is where the danger of gossip comes in.  Again, "Don't jump to conclusions - there may be a perfectly good explanation for what you just saw." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

 

 


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