I know that I talk about my church all the time but I honestly LOVE MY CHURCH and I hope that whoever runs across this blog will consider visiting; I promise, you will not be disappointed! Today, Christ City Church began another four week series and this one basically covers the four main characters surrounding the Christmas story: Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus and the Magi.
Today, David Nasser, one of our lead pastors, covered Mary's point of view/part surrounding the birth of Jesus. We covered Luke Ch. 1, vs. 26-38. Honestly, I expected to hear this passage taught like most of the other ways I had heard before, but goodness, I WAS WRONG. Within these eight verses my heart was in my throat; I actually felt the distress of Mary, a 14-16 yr. old girl, who was just told she was being FAVORED by God to have His son, Jesus Christ.
I bet you are wondering, 'why would Mary be distressed, she is birthing the Son of God', here is why: she is a 14-16 yr. old virgin, unmarried, having a child out of wedlock, ridicule and persecution awaits her in the coming months and she simply must have faith in God that He is going to see her through. She is literally birthing the Savior of the world, the stress upon her would probably be a little high.
David made this very clear today: for God to find favor on His children does not mean our lives will become easier, yet they will become harder. We see that Mary knew, even at a young, for God to find favor in His children it meant a true life of servitude. Her ending response was this, ' I am the Lord's servant, may your word to me be fulfilled.' What faith Mary had, I wish we, as modern day Christians, could have faith such as that. Amen.
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