SOMETHING NEW
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Luke 1:34-35
And Mary said to the angel, "How will this be, since I
am a virgin?" And the angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come
upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the
Child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God."
"How will this be, since I am a virgin?"
Mary is not doubting like Zechariah. Mary is a practical, she
needs to know: Does God want her to move up the wedding ceremony? What’s the
plan here? Mary wonders. Does God have entirely different plans for her?
As it turns out, God does indeed have different plans, He's
going to handle the whole thing by miracle. As God promised long ago through
the prophet Isaiah, "Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and
shall call His Name Immanuel" (7:14b). God is doing a new thing in the
world, by inserting new, pure, divine, holy life into it. The baby will be both
fully God and fully human, God from all eternity, now taking on true human
nature in the person of Jesus.
Not one person who knows about Jesus’ beginning will ever be
in doubt that God is doing something special here, something to pay attention
to. "Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not
perceive it?" (Isaiah 43:19a) We must not miss the fact that God is
doing it on His own, no human measures, preparations, or planning are
necessary. God's salvation, the deliverance he promised is entirely His own
work, from Jesus' conception to His suffering, death, resurrection, and
ascension. And we are the joyful receivers!
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