Tuesday, December 18, 2012

With God

 

Read Luke 1:34-38
http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=222834127

“Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word.”

 

The angel tells Mary exactly how this birth that seems impossible will take place, and not only that, but Gabriel reassures her that his word is true with the example of Elizabeth.  When Gabriel announces the birth of John earlier in Luke 1, the sign given to Zechariah is that he is unable to speak.  The sign given to Mary though is that Elizabeth is already pregnant.  God has made a barren woman to bear fruit!  God can indeed make a virgin to give birth.

Verse 37 says, “For nothing will be impossible with God.”  Notice the future tense of the “will be.”  Even now, nothing is impossible with God – nothing will ever be impossible with God.  God is stronger and more merciful and more powerful than anything else because God is power and strength and love.  If God can send his Son to the world, if God can make love into flesh and bone, what could possibly be impossible for God?  This week we light the candle for love, and we are reminded that even in our broken world there is room for love, and the light of the world breaks into our darkness to teach us how to love.
 
The virgin will bear a Son, the barren will bear fruit, the lame will walk, the blind will see, the hurt will be healed, the broken will be whole, and all will be offered redemption.  You see, God is in the business of doing what we think is impossible for nothing is impossible with God.

 

Brandi Tevebaugh

Eternal and loving God, pour out in our hearts this day the light of your love, warming us to one another, enlightening our understanding of others, and revealing the path of charity upon which you have called us to walk. Amen.