12-26-23-ENG.

"Nothing will be impossible with God. "

Luke 1:37 
SO BE IT

Read It: Luke 1:26-38 
Today's text is one of the most beautiful and moving in Scripture. But it's not a pretext for worshiping Mary. She was a godly and virtuous young woman, but God never instructed anyone to worship or pray to Mary. Mary needed a Savior just like you and me (see 1:47). As we said the other day, Mary was righteous, but she wasn't sinless. She was privileged, ileged, but she wasn't perfect. The announcement to Mary came in the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy with John the Baptist. Both births would be miraculous, but there was a huge difference between them. John the Baptist would come through the normal means of human conception, as unlikely as conception tion was between an older couple like Zacharias and Elizabeth. Mary, of course, was a virgin. So this would be a miracle of God from beginning to end. This helps to explain why Gabriel did not rebuke Mary for asking a question (v. 34) the way he rebuked Zacharias. 

Mary was asking a logical question, given her virginity. Besides, her response in verse 38 shows that she was not expressing doubt or unbelief in God's word. Jesus could not have a human father because He had to be a perfect man to die for the sins of imperfect people. So Joseph could not be Jesus' biological father, or Jesus would have been tainted by the virus of sin. Jesus needed a Father who was as perfect as He had to be. The only Father who meets that criterion is God. So in Jesus we have perfect God and perfect fect man, the God-Man who was fully man and fully God simultaneously. So Mary believed the word of God over against her physical circumstances. stances. She did not know how, but she did know who. See, too many of us try to figure God out. But His methodology isn't always clear, and He's under no obligation to explain every detail to us. All we need to know is that He is accomplishing His glory and His program gram through His people. Mary's question was: "How is this possible?" When God answered her, all she needed to say was, "So be it." Think About It When you know God, you don't have to know how He's going to do what He said He would do. You just have to know that it's God who is going to do it.