Today is Tuesday, December 6th, 2005; Karen's Korner #687

A portion of the Christmas story and a commentary on those verses from my Living Bible:

 

Luke 1:30 –33 – “Don’t be frightened, Mary,” the angel told her, “for God has decided to wonderfully bless you! Very soon now, you will become pregnant and have a baby boy, and you are to name him ‘Jesus’. He shall be very great and shall be called the Son of God. And the Lord God shall give him the throne of his ancestor David. And he shall reign over Israel forever; his Kingdom shall never end!”

 

Commentary – God’s blessing does not automatically bring instant success, fame, or favor. His blessing on Mary, the honor of being the mother of the Messiah, would lead to much pain, her peers would ridicule her; her fiancé would come close to leaving her; her son would be rejected and murdered. But through her son would come the world’s only hope, and this is why Mary has been praised by countless generations as “blessed among women”. Her submission led to our salvation. If your blessings lead to sorrows, think of Mary and wait patiently for God to finish working out his plan.
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