It's here! Christmas is here!...and almost passed for another year. The stockings were hung and full, Santa has made his stop at our house, and the last gift has been opened. The house has been destroyed and will take days to get back together but seeing my children celebrate Christmas is priceless.
When I became a mom, my thoughts of Christmas changed in several ways. One change was that I suddenly thought of Mary more. I cannot imagine how she must have felt. Could you imagine having an angel appear to you? That alone would freak me out! But then to be told I was going to become pregnant and give birth to the Son of God! I just cannot wrap my head around what Mary might have been thinking and feeling at that moment. Add knowing that he would save the world and seeing him suffer and be crucified, it would seem to be more than a mother could bear. But Mary, sweet Mary, took on the role that God had deemed her worthy to fulfill. When the angel appeard to Mary to fortell the birth of Jesus, he said, "For no word from God will ever fail." And Mary answered, "I am the Lord’s servant. May your word to me be fulfilled.”
As Christmas day is drawing to end, this is what I want to carry with me throughout the year....NO word from God will EVER fail. Life will throw curveballs and situations will arise that will make me say, "Really, God??? You want me to do what??" But I have Mary's example of faith to keep me focused on being, and thinking of, more than me.
Merry Christmas and may you carry the spirit of Christmas with you everyday of the year.
Luke 1:26-38
26 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, 27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28 The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”
29 Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. 30 But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. 31 You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”
34 “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
35 The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called[b] the Son of God. 36 Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. 37 For no word from God will ever fail.”
38 “I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her.
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