10.7-When someone is assumed to have done something disgraceful, don't disgrace them.

10-7

When it seems someone has done something wrong we can choose to expose that to many people, or we can choose to pray for that person and treat them the way we would want to be treated. Human beings have choices. We are not like animals who only operate by “instincts”. When God the Father sent Jesus to the earth, he sent him to be influenced by a father who had no desire to expose wrongness in people. That child grew up in a small, despised town to be the Savior. Today two billion people claim that He is their Savior. His leadership has lasted for the last 2018 years. As family leaders let us work in these harsh, divisive days of our nation to simply pray for people who have been caught in some bad thing and not expose them to more pain by spreading bad news.

Matthew 1.
¹⁸ Now the birth of Jesus ^[r]Christ was as follows: when His mother Mary had been ^[s]betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit. ¹⁹ And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man and not wanting to disgrace her, planned ^[t]to send her away secretly. ²⁰ But when he had considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for ^[u]the Child who has been ^[v]conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. ²¹ She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for ^[w]He will save His people from their sins.” ²² Now all this ^[x]took place to fulfill what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet: ²³ “Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a Son, and they shall call His name ^[y]Immanuel,” which translated means, “God with us.” ²⁴ And Joseph ^[z]awoke from his sleep and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took Mary as his wife, ^25 [aa]but kept her a virgin until she gave birth to a Son; and he called His name Jesus.