Joseph did not want to expose Mary to trouble.

We are in a time when there is slowly more chaos than order. It’s swift, and most people think only of deceiving each other. Men leave their wives, men’s wives, children run away from their parents. We listen every night to reports of a murder or robbery. It seems that the end of the world is approaching, and it should come to God’s justice. But if we want to stand in God’s justice, we must act according to the gospel, the righteousness of God.

In the Gospels, we have heard of the man we hear about only a few times a year: about Joseph, who was Mary’s husband and a righteous man, did not want to expose Mary in trouble. “Therefore, he intended to put her away secretly” (Mathew 1:19).
Imagine the situation then. Joseph a man honorable and just. He will learn that Mary is in a blessed state. He will either release her or publicly declare her status. Then he waits for her, just stoning. But since Joseph is a righteous man, he wants to let her go quietly.
He can’t think of anything more sensible. At that moment, the angel of the Lord will appear to him and explain to him the situation actually happening. Joseph has the opportunity to say yes or no. He accepts the Lord’s mission, and so does he become Jesus’ educator-foster parent. He doesn’t look at what people tell him what you are; they will talk about it behind their backs, but they will fulfill the word of the Lord. It reflects the previous one’s education. What was said in one word that he was a righteous man was acquired for life.

Advent is a time when God addresses each of us. He knows that he is also not always all right in our lives, and we are often scared. Just these days, to us, offers a new opportunity to gain courage in a new life with Christ. He knows about us every day the enemy of God is coming, and therefore he is urging us not to rely only on ourselves, on our forces, to help psychologists or psychiatrists. However, this requires us to reconsider our relationship to this world, the surrounding people, and especially the relationship with God. And we don’t smell it anymore. We have paved sidewalks, established relationships with the things of this world that we rely on, that they will help us. That is why we are reassigning God somewhere outside, to the other track and his offer, and we put the address in the safe, which we will use at the last moment as a machine.

But God also invites us to share in the history of salvation. When Advent is slowly coming to an end and Christmas is approaching, we feel in these moments. Advent characters approached us; at Christmas, he himself will address us. From us, at this moment, he demands what the angel said to Joseph: “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to accept Mary, his wife ”(Mathew 1:20). The important word is, “don’t be afraid.” We should not be afraid to be better people; we should not be afraid of personal sanctification; we should not be afraid to abandon our sins. And above all, we should not be afraid to accept Christ in our lives.

Advent is a time when God’s offer is so expressive and comprehensible that he must understand and see everyone. Let us not seek false excuses, and let us not be afraid, but let us open ourselves to the acceptance of God into our lives.