Day 73: How Can This Be ....?
Read: Luke 1:26 - 38
Ask yourselves these questions this morning: Today, if some stranger
were to walk up to you and asked you to do some random ordinary thing for
them or for a group of other people standing nearby -- What would be going
through your mind? Well, the first thing I would probably think is "How can this be that I should be so blessed or cursed to be standing here at this particular moment in time?" "They want this or that and I do not have the time nor the inclination to become embroiled or
involved with what ever this or that could possibly be. This person is
dressed in some fashion that almost certainly will arouse suspicion. "Okay, Why me?" "Why now?" or "How can this be?"
Have you ever been asked to do something by someone and asked every combination of 'HOW?' you could ever think of? The 'How' questions just keep rolling through your mind, somehow find themselves descending into your heart, catches the
attention of your spirit and then suddenly somehow makes their way back
up and through some unknown force unconsciously come out of your mouth?
In that very short instant when you thought you could overcome your
desire to become the least bit involved it is too late and against your
better judgment you suddenly find yourself acting so completely out of character? How can this be that in the twinkling of an eye you're so overcome?
Has the Lord ever tickled your conscience, asked you to do something
and you asked HOW? In that very instant, in those very first
milliseconds a miracle has just suddenly taken place. That wonderful
miracle was your overcoming your willingness to remain content, of just
living and existing on the side lines of life. How can this be? Please
pay particular attention to verses 34 and 35: 34 Then Mary said to the
angel, "How can this be, since I do not know a man?" 35 And the angel
answered and said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the
power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One
who is to be born will be called the Son of God.
The
angel told her she was “highly favored” that is, the object of special
favor from God. Gabriel gave her the good news: she would become the
mother of the promised Messiah whom she would name Jesus (Jehovah is
salvation). In that one miraculous moment Mary's life was transformed,
never to be the same again. That single instant when the plain and
ordinary ho hum "How can it be this way for me" on earth is now, suddenly, in less time than it takes to blink your eye, is miraculously
set on fire by the Holy Spirit of God and given a brand new
extraordinary purpose the scope of which we can't begin nor hope to
fathom, only accept. How? Because with God nothing is impossible.
Let us Pray: God of all creation, we come this morning in this season of waiting and longing and hope: to listen for Your voice, to hear Your call upon our
lives and to live out our witness to the miracle of our transformation
through our faith in the coming of thy infant Son Jesus the Messiah. May
this time of anticipation strengthen our own resolve and like Mary to
live lives of unquestioned acceptance of the miraculous roles you have in store for those who come to believe and in radical love of the impossible.
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Read: Luke 1:26 - 38
Ask yourselves these questions this morning: Today, if some stranger were to walk up to you and asked you to do some random ordinary thing for them or for a group of other people standing nearby -- What would be going through your mind? Well, the first thing I would probably think is "How can this be that I should be so blessed or cursed to be standing here at this particular moment in time?" "They want this or that and I do not have the time nor the inclination to become embroiled or involved with what ever this or that could possibly be. This person is dressed in some fashion that almost certainly will arouse suspicion. "Okay, Why me?" "Why now?" or "How can this be?"
Have you ever been asked to do something by someone and asked every combination of 'HOW?' you could ever think of? The 'How' questions just keep rolling through your mind, somehow find themselves descending into your heart, catches the attention of your spirit and then suddenly somehow makes their way back up and through some unknown force unconsciously come out of your mouth? In that very short instant when you thought you could overcome your desire to become the least bit involved it is too late and against your better judgment you suddenly find yourself acting so completely out of character? How can this be that in the twinkling of an eye you're so overcome?
Has the Lord ever tickled your conscience, asked you to do something and you asked HOW? In that very instant, in those very first milliseconds a miracle has just suddenly taken place. That wonderful miracle was your overcoming your willingness to remain content, of just living and existing on the side lines of life. How can this be? Please pay particular attention to verses 34 and 35: 34 Then Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, since I do not know a man?" 35 And the angel answered and said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.
The angel told her she was “highly favored” that is, the object of special favor from God. Gabriel gave her the good news: she would become the mother of the promised Messiah whom she would name Jesus (Jehovah is salvation). In that one miraculous moment Mary's life was transformed, never to be the same again. That single instant when the plain and ordinary ho hum "How can it be this way for me" on earth is now, suddenly, in less time than it takes to blink your eye, is miraculously set on fire by the Holy Spirit of God and given a brand new extraordinary purpose the scope of which we can't begin nor hope to fathom, only accept. How? Because with God nothing is impossible.
Let us Pray: God of all creation, we come this morning in this season of waiting and longing and hope: to listen for Your voice, to hear Your call upon our lives and to live out our witness to the miracle of our transformation through our faith in the coming of thy infant Son Jesus the Messiah. May this time of anticipation strengthen our own resolve and like Mary to live lives of unquestioned acceptance of the miraculous roles you have in store for those who come to believe and in radical love of the impossible.
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