You know I never really sat down and thought about it, but the virgin birth was quite scandalous. I'm pretty sure that I have heard this before, but it jumped out at me again today. Our savior looked to all around as if he had been conceived out of wedlock. Kinda crazy right? I mean everyone could do that math. You were born 3 months after your parents got married.
Joseph and Mary both had their reputations stained by this essentially branded as fornicators. Here is the kicker, they would also look bad in front of the Church today. For Christ they suffered ignominy at the hands of other religious people. So in following Christ, they looked bad to the morally upstanding of their day, even those who were following the law.
I guess that just goes to remind me not to judge, and to realize that following Christ might sometimes make me do things that look bad to the rest of the world -- even the Christian world.
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