Well it's almost Christmas time again and I am always amazed when I stop and
think of what Mary and Joseph went through at the beginning of Jesus’ birth. I
was just recently studying Elizabeth George’s
Loving God with All Your Mind and she brought me to the topic just
at the right time, and it makes me wonder...
What's the correct response when God calls us to do something really big, a
turning point for our lives? And what is MY response when He asks ME to do
something really big, life changing? Imagine when God came to Mary and told her
she was chosen to carry the Savior baby and to raise Him as her son. Image what
Joseph must have been thinking, if the whole pregnancy thing was actually going
to happen as the angel said, and how it would affect their future. Talk about
needing to go against the flow, being shunned by society for doing the right
thing that others couldn't even begin to believe or understand...
Mary's response to the angel's announcement that would quickly turn her
world upside-down was, "Behold, the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to
me according to your word." A maidservant was one “whose will was not her own but who rather was committed to
another…obligated to perform her
master’s will without question or delay” She would sit silently waiting for
signals from her master, trained to obey his/her every command. “Her one purpose in life was to obey her
Master’s will…quickly, quietly, and without hesitation.” (taken from Loving God with All Your Mind)
And so I wonder, Lord, am I ready and
willing to obey You…quickly, quietly, and without hesitation? Help me to be more like that as Your maidservant,
waiting and ready to serve You.
Well it's almost Christmas time again and I am always amazed when I stop and
think of what Mary and Joseph went through at the beginning of Jesus’ birth. I
was just recently studying Elizabeth George’s Loving God with All Your Mind and she brought me to the topic just
at the right time, and it makes me wonder...
