As a young woman an angel visits her and tells her that she is going to become pregnant. Mary is disturbed and confused by the angel. She finds it hard to understand how this will happen since she is an unmarried virgin. I’m sure to her the situation seemed impossible and frightening. Despite this Mary replies as follows And Mary said, “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her. Luke 1:38............ Put yourself in Mary’s shoes she just received some pretty crazy news from an angel. I don’t know about you but I don’t see angels very often. That alone would have freaked me out. But Mary says “let it be to me according to your word.”Mary surrendered to God’s will for her life. Somehow she understood that He loved her and wanted what was best for her. She also grasped the fact that His ways are so much higher than ours that maybe it wasn’t her place to even try to understand. I’ve come to the conclusion that this is exactly how we must learn to respond as well. We must have faith enough to surrender everything to him!
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 19:29:14 +0000