“The angel answered Mary, ‘The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God. Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. For no word from God will ever fail.’ Mary answered, ‘I am the Lord’s servant. May your word to me be fulfilled.’” (Luke 1:35-38)
So often I stand on the
edge of the light, afraid to act, afraid that this story is too good to be
true. But then in my better moments, when I listen closely to The Story, move
close to The Light, my fears seem to evaporate like an early morning mist, and
I can believe again. I can believe that God who made all that is became clothed
in our human flesh so that we might become clothed in God. I can believe that
God claims me as a beloved child. I can believe that all my days are in God’s
strong and tender hands. I can believe that life is good, beautiful, and
eternal. I can believe that not only my days but all days are in God’s good and
able hands. I can believe, rejoice, and wait trustingly and expectantly for the
unfolding of God’s promise given in so many ways and most clearly in the Advent
Story. Thanks be to God!...
God gives the promise
and God keeps the promise. So even though it does sound too good to be true, it
is true! Thanks be to God it is true! Two thousand years of Christian
experience and testimony declare that the preposterous promise is true.
-- Rueben P. Job in “A Guide to Prayer for All Who Seek God”
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