Mary had a strange and unexpected visit. Angel Gabriel visited her and informed her that she will conceive and that the long awaited Messiah will be born through her! But there was a major problem; she was not yet married was not the type of woman who would stoop down to human solutions to a God sized problem. Her ancestor Sarah had also faced with a similar problem; God had told her husband Abraham that they will have a child in their old age. The wait was too long to bear and she had decided to “help” God by encouraging her husband to have a child through her servant. Mary could have tried a similar trick like her ancestor. Angel Gabriel had suggested the impossible: she would have a child although she was a virgin. She could have secretly had a sexual encounter with a man to “help” God out. God had probably forgotten that virgin can’t have a child. But she chose to believe the words of Angel Gabriel that “with God nothing shall be impossible”. Her amazing faith and refusal to choose a human solution to an impossible solution made her a truly blessed woman.
Will we be like Mary and choose to trust in Jesus, in spite of everything that seems to indicate that we are in an impossible situation? Or will we rather choose to go with quick fixes since God needs help? May Mary’s faith remind us this Christmas that God needs no help from us to undertake whatever He has promised and that He will accomplish whatever He has promised in His perfect time.
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