Did you know your baby would walk on water? Did you know the blind would see, the lame walk? did you know you held the Lord of creation, ruler of the nations - the perfect lamb? Mary, did you know? Better yet - Mary did you have a choice? Did you have a choice to endure the shame of being found pregnant, yet unmarried? Did you have the choice of giving birth in the comfort of home rather than a strangers cave? Did you have the choice to flee a king, to return an exile, to lose a son? Mary, did you have a choice? Friend - do you? The reality lies before you each day, do you follow the wisdom of the world or the foolishness of God? The story itself is unreal - all angels declaring, virgins giving birth, stars in the sky and wise men from the east. It's all a stretch to our minds that would like to choose a much different path. In the narrow view the choice is easy -I can take or leave the details as long as I accept and follow Jesus and His teaching...right? Wrong. Dead wrong. The eternal deal breaker is whether or not God is God, with plans greater than our knowledge and our imagination - a God greater than our personal choice. "I am the Lord's servant, " Mary says, " Let it be done to me as you have said." Just as God would build of David a house, so too would God knit in the womb of Mary something she did not choose - a child that would be called Jesus, because He would save His people from there sins. The "choice" is empowered by the Word of God, the promise that He would never leave us nor forsake us, but give us instead the gift of eternal life. Did you choose? No, God chose you - to be His own through the sacrifice of His Son and to give you life by His Spirit dwelling in you.
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