103 posts 6/19/2007 6:17 pm
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Luke 1:39-56... Mary Visit Elizabeth... Reflect
Luke 1:39-56... Mary Visit Elizabeth... Reflect…
In the first two chapters of Luke’s gospel, we are presented with two announcements of birth: one to Zechariah concerning the future birth of his , John the Baptist, and one to Mary, concerning the birth of Jesus. Since both are asked to male tremendous act of faith by accepting the angel’s extraordinary statements, we expect that both will rise to the occasion and express their wholehearted availability to God’s plans for them. Unfortunately, the angel’s words are too much for Zechariah. To have a in his and his wife’s old age is judge impossible, and he balks at such a prospect. He reacts with suspicious doubt: “How shall I know this?” Mary’s reaction is quite different. What she is being asked to believe is even more incredible, for whoever heard of a virgin remaining a virgin through pregnancy and birth? Yet, she unhesitatingly takes the angel at his word. She believes everything he says to her, although it makes no sense on the natural level. She does not understand how such impossibilities can become possible because God makes them so, but she accepts that it can be so.
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365 Days with the Lord
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